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>> thank you very much. >> let's get right to it. the new year's eve celebration is still going forward even as other cities across the world are canceling their festivities. last week, when mayor de blasio announced the move to move forward, you said he was making the right move. do you still feel confident this is a good idea given everything that's happening right now? >> yes, yes y do. and i want to commend the mayor and when you speak with the business leaders in the city, particularly in the central business district of tourism, what happens on new year's, broadway, it's a major economic...

49% met the standard for english-language art, 33.8% in math. that is not good the numbers speak for themselves, this was during remote learning speaker if the teachers union boss made exactly the argument about the blizzard in chicago and the old options of years past back in april of 2020 maybe we would say that's an unreasonable thing to assert and appoint to bring up but at this stage of the pandemic given everything that we know an enormous amount of data, a lot of experience on the ground across the whole country in the world we know that virtual learning has been for millions of student...

Year on? do you have any regrets? do you still stand by that given everything that has played out since then? >> i do. it was really difficult. i've actually done television in the past myself but nothing will ever prepare you for losing a loved one this way. and we had every major media press publication outlet in this country and seven or eight other countries contact us or try to contact us and the reason that i reached out to you is because i know you. of all the other press that reached out to us i didn't play soccer with them as a kid like i did with you. and so for me that was comfortin...

In the world to pass the pandemic. is it not extraordinary that despite the consensus on restrictions back then, the consensus on giving people back their freedom, which then, the consensus on giving people back theirfreedom, which is often so much harder, and trusting to personal responsibility, that consensus appears only to exist on this side of the house? i consensus appears only to exist on this side of the house?— this side of the house? i think it is a ureat this side of the house? i think it is a great shame _ this side of the house? i think it is a great shame the _ this side of the...

Reaction to that decision from nato, which is not surprising given everything we've been hearing from the white house. >> yeah, it is, martha. it's not surprising. thanks for having me on the program. but there are ways to construct no-fly zones. we've had humanitarian assistant no fly zones in the past. they can be built in a less bellicose way. so what we're hoping is that we can cope a conversation going about this option and explore other ways that we might be able to accomplish the same thing. we need humanitarian assistance in 2014 russian bombs going in and out. we have to protect those...