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June june baby, and to bury him just saturday, this saturday, from two weeks ago he passed away. and watching just such a steady rapid decline of him passing away is devastating. i miss my brother so much. and my best friend. >> look, i know you have parallels, right? you were about the same age. you see yourself in him. >> yes. >> and so you decided that you were going to get vaccinated. tell us your message -- look, it's not that you don't have your concerns. it's that you now seem to be weighing your concerns and the virus seems to be so concerning to you that the vaccination makes sense. w...

Everyone, including members of congress, has a right not to get vaccinated. but it is pretty squirrely for someone who has been elected by their constituents, someone who sits in the nation's highest legislative body, not to just answer directly whether or not they did indeed get vaccinated. this is not a hipaa issue, and it is not a moral issue to answer the question. you can have a debate about whether people should or shouldn't get vaccines, but that people won't answer the question when they're supposed to be leaders is striking, you know, months now into this vaccination rollout. >> it is...

>> no, it's not. it's not a hipaa thing. it's not hipaa at all. it has to do with health care providers sharing information. basically we know everything about these athletes and their medical history. again, i understand the desire for privacy, but if they tear a groin, we get a two-paragraph readout about their groin. that's public knowledge. there's basically nothing personal about their medical records. so it's not the most convincing argument. as for the rest, well, it's the same stuff you hear everywhere. that sounds like people you may know in your life, sort of squirrely, it's my choic...

Mentioned, whether this is a 180 recently, you still have a lot of house republicans who aren't vaccinated. cnn actually did a very herculean task of pinging every single office on capitol hill, and they were able to yea and nay, but for republicans less than a majority were actually vaccinated. there's still a number who aren't saying they are. they're saying it's a hipaa violation if anyone asks, but you are very much hearing people like steve slice, others really going, trying to go either post on social media, or when they're at home, just go get the vaccine. >> good reporting on this, tha...

The minnesota vikings released its coach over his refusal to get vaccinated while quarterback dak prescott evaded questions over his vaccination status. he incorrectly stated he couldn't reveal his status doull to hipaa laws. so far only 75% of nfl players received one dose of the covid vaccine. so after countless demand that it was racially insensitive, cleveland's major league baseball will change its name after more than 100 years. the team declared cleveland was always the most important part of their title but now will honor all americans by removing the rest of the name and mascot. nbc...