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Propaganda continues to sow doubt over the importance of vaccines, and on monday, the dow jones plunged more than 700 points, its biggest drop of the year as alarm over the delta infections dealt a blow to stops. jeff zeleny is live in cincinnati with more. vaccine hesitancy is stalling u.s. progress and killing many americans. what efforts are being taken now to bridge the gap between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated? reporter: john, good morning, there are extensive efforts underway. they really have been for weeks and months to urge people to get vaks vaccinations, there s a vaccamillion lottery, contests, celebrity endorsements. but the health experts we talked to say it s unclear if they have a real effect or not. as president biden marks his 6th month in office today, the ....
Question is anyone listening to his urgent pleas. if you re unvaccinated, you are not protected. so please, please get vaccinated. get vaccinated now. reporter: an urgent plea from president biden, imploring americans to shed their doubts about vaccinations with covid-19 cases sharply on the rise. the only way we put it behind us is if more americans get vaccinated. reporter: dina cariranley, a barbara lynch agree with the president but have a blunt reality check for them. they have spent months trying to chip away at vaccine hesitancy through their group first ladies for health, which does outreach to communities of color and faith. we have come up against a brick wall, and we re trying to figure out what we can do now to induce people to get the vaccine. i have a grandson who is not taking the vaccine. and we ve preached to him and preached to him about it, and he s not taking the vaccine. your own grandson. yes, he believes the stuff he s seeing on the internet. ....
We have to also make sure we re dealing with other aspects as well. senator peters, thanks for being with us. thank you. well, some hosts at fox s propaganda headquarters are pushing antivaccine rhetoric. others are livid that the government wants to battle vaccine push by propaganda headquarters by educating americans on the benefit asks safety of the coronavirus vaccine, including one member of the sunrise trio. if you didn t get a vaccination, that s your choice, but if you did, like i did, and they did, and maybe you did, then you should not wear a mask. and if you didn t, if you want to go cliff diving this weekend, you don t have to check with me. it seems a little dangerous but i m not going to judge you, and if you go ahead and put yourself in danger, if you feel this is not something for you, don t do it, but don t affect my life. 99% of the people dying from ....
let me ask you a question. you have liberals and libertarians coming together over criminal justice reform. a lot of people on the right and left think it doesn t make sense that we have so many nonviolent offenders in prison and we spend $80 billion a year in incarcerating americans. we spend four time the amount keeping people in jail than we do on educating americans. have you been following the talk about criminal justice reform? i have. do you think we need to stop putting so many nonviolent offenders in jail and paying $8 o billion a year? well, i have to say this, in terms of our cities and in terms of the violent offenses, we have to get a lot tougher. ....
well, that s true. but let s begin by educating americans and ourselves that there is a difference between being muslim or christian or jewish or member of any religion on the one hand and being radicalized into an ideology. so these two persons most likely we ll know more, probably with the interrogation, became jihaddists. in the arab spring, have you millions of people rising against the radical islamists. i want to ask you, what are your questions at this point? what are you asking yourself about what happened? and about these brothers? i am now concerned that they are small piece and a much bigger piece. they have been manipulated. the uncle was right. they have been raradicallized and one is dead and one is in custody. what is going to happen, that s the strategic result of this ....