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However, they are elected members of congress in the middle of a pandemic. am i wrong? isn't it our business? if they want to lead on taxes and spending, if they want to lead on health care, don't they have to lead on a pandemic? >> they do, and there has been a notable shift in the republican party in recent days and weeks. you saw steve scalise who has been talking on fox news, the house gop doctor's office urged people to get vaccines. at the same time, they are still not willing to confront which is arguably one of the biggest culprits of vaccine hesitancy. that's the misinformation being ...

How much blame do you put on the misinformation being spread online, on facebook, on twitter, and frankly on right wing media? >> frank, right wing and left wing. everybody has to do their own work. no one is going to be able to do it for you, you have to do your own research, talk to the people you trust to get your medical care, talk to your doctor, talk to your pharmacist. that's what we've been trying to do at the doctors caucus generally, is try to make information available from a trusted source. look, joe biden shows up at my door to give me a shot, i'm not happy. but -- >> right, and t...

Says not only he wasn't but it's un-american to question him. >> and that part too that it's un-american to question him. hypocrisy abounds with the white house because then you have the president tweeting about senator john mccain saying that you know, well, i like it when my war heroes aren't captured or not respecting that mccain served in any way, shape, or form. so to see the back and forth, you see it with sanders. one minutes she discredits "the washington post" and next minute uses the stories with the clinton and dnc paints. >> it raises a question what the briefing is for these days....

Director of social media and you want to make sure the president isn't scammed by a bot again, what do you do? is there something you can do to protect yourself from it short of never retweeting anybody? >> not really. if you're going to sit and consume that information, you're going to be exposed to it. and there's going to be bots, political, people hike this that are trying to sell products using automated bots and foreign influence, as well. the best answer for the president is to close that account down. that's the only way we can protect him and our country from this sort of misinformati...

E-mails. here's what he wrote. there is a ton of wrong information getting out into the public domain from congress and people who are not particularly informed. in so far as we have firmed up assessments that don't compromise intel and the investigation and need to have the capability to correct the record -- misimpression. we can take this up tomorrow at deputies, a meeting of deputies. the story on friday was that the white house was nefariously figuring out how to dupe the public. this e-mail shows the white house saying hey, it's really hard to know what's going on right now. there's a lo...