push the same policies that have already failed and not from appearing on tv to make more bad predictions. such is the case with all the smug log heads forecast and the political demise of donald trump. i do think trump is waiting. he s only been out of office for ten months, so you already see his influence definitely wayne. we were going to see that continue in the next three years. donald trump is having a bad morning because he has become irrelevant. laura: never trumper republicans never known for their originality repeated the mantra. we are starting to see some of trump s influence, the rift on the republican party is starting to loosen. we know trump s influence is waning. trump s influence is diminishing. laura: that is what is called wishful thinking, folks. because they desperately wanted trump gone. they let whatever a sliver of political judgment they had if they had any to begin with. check out this map of states where trump endorsed candidates h
outbreak a global pandemic. our senior medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins us to explain why. what makes it a pandemic? there are criteria that are somewhat defined to call something a pandemic. let me preface by saying this terminology that we re going to start using now isn t so much to cause panic but rather to really cause a focus on preparedness. sanjay will join us in a moment. more than 525,000 americans have died since sanjay made those remarks. but this morning there are so many positive signs. 2.2 million people a day are getting vaccinated. the cdc has new guidelines for 30 million people who are fully vaccinated. if you are one of them, the cdc says it is safe to gather with other vaccinated people indoors without masks. and vaccinated grandparents can safely visit unvaccinated grandchildren. but the experts say we re not out of the wood yet. coronavirus variants could still trigger another deadly surge, especially as states relax their guidelines.
laura: god help us if he was attorney general but that is chilling, that we needed to go further and fauci basically says the same thing. i mean, some of the worst misinformation that has come out from the cdc. for instance, there is no after covid recovery. core pieces of information about the effectiveness of masks and so on. i think the problem here is these government entities try to create an illusion of consensus about all of these supposedly scientific points but didn t actually exist. there never was a consensus about lockdown. there was a tremendous dispute in the scientific community about this. they wanted to create the illusion that there was so they could get their way. laura: back in february the new york times reported that the cdc hadn t been publishing large portions of their own covid data, citing