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She's in the studio with us today. i want to go back to the beginning. you're on what you think is a routine trip. president bush is in a class room, talking to children in walks the white house chief of staff. >> it stunned me. no one interrupts the president, even in front of a classroom of second graders. i wrote down in my reporter's notebook, 9:07:00 a.m., andy whispers what stuns me now 20 years later, how little we knew but what the president knew at that moment, he had already asked the intelligence community what could al qaeda do, osama bin laden do against americans on u.s. soil. he...

Governor abbott banned mask requirements in texas school, too. and then just took their covid policy to a whole other level. they issued new guidelines saying that schools are not required to notify parents if there's a covid case in the classroom. for context, texas schools are required to notify parents within 48 hours if a kid in the class room gets lice. judge, it's great to have you. let's start on this one. i mean, i want to say this is an innocent mistake or something, but i saw the texas education agency put this out today on twitter and i couldn't believe what i was seeing. am i nuts?...

>> exactly. >> reporter: and schools here in the state of florida are on the verge of reopening, and now for the school year, and now we're seeing a spike in cases for children. you know they can't get the vaccine if they're 12 and under, but right now 10,585 new cases in the past week among children who are under the age of 12. the positivity rate for children in that age group is 18.1%. so certainly they're looking to lower that. but the governor is not taking any action. in fact, he issued an executive order, signed one a couple days ago saying school districts cannot mandate masks in schoo...

You're concerned about children returning to the classroom this week. >> well, jessica, this is a difficult conversation. i'm also concerned about kids not returning to the classroom. and i think you can return to the classroom safely if you follow the appropriate recommendations. the first thing we all need to do is get vaccinated. and people -- in this country currently there are 100 million persons eligible for vaccination who have not gotten vaccinated. if those people would be vaccinated, we yould not be having problems right now. the first thing is getting the people eligible for vaccina...

The start of the pandemic. some parents are still not concerned about their kids returns to the class room, and they're not in favor of mask mandates. let's listen to this. >> i am concerned that we are creating a generation of isolated anti-social children. >> that's how you build herd immunity. when you're exposed to it. what we have is a very transmisable virus that is not very deadly to our children. >> so doctor, what's your message to parents who do not feel like the coronavirus presents a real threat to their children? >> well, you know, they are correct. the chances of a kid dying from...