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Afghans out, we are pulling ought of the american civilians out, that would have sent a clear signal we know the afghan government is going to fall, and that would have been tough but it also would have been accurate and it would have helped at least reduce the level of chaos we are seeing in afghanistan right now. >> congressman adam smith, i want to appreciate what you just did. yes, i always pack a lot in my questions but you very capably break it down and answer them. thank you so much. >> i try. >> you do a great job. thank you. >> thanks, alex. fed up yet forced to forge eye head. nurs...

People with no masks and even defiant of masks and vaccinations, and that is incredibly demoralizing as well. and the staff shortages are extraordinary. nurses have been leaving the profession. we're not training enough nurses, nearly enough nurses. so when you talk about icus being overwhelmed and now sadly pediatric icus overwhelmed, it is not just the beds, alex, it is the fact we don't have the nursing staff. you can always make an icu bed but you can't -- you can't make an icu nurse just like that. they require years of training, and that's what we're suffering from. >> i mean it is all h...

I walk around grocery stores looking at people and wondering what they look like when they're going to get into icu. it is pretty difficult to deal with. >> joining me now is dr. peter hotez, co-director, center for vaccine development at texas children's hospital, also author of the book "preventing the next pandemic, vaccine diplomacy in a time of anti-science." dr. hotez, what is your response to what you just heard from those health care workers, as i welcome you? >> yeah, no, it is hard breaking to listen to them and it is real. i mean the pain is real. they're exhausted. they've been wat...

Hilton. my friend, good morning to you. this information about debating face mask mandates, what do you say to people who think it does more harm than good? >> look at mississippi. it's already quarantined over 6% of their elementary school to high school kids in the short period f o time they've been open. what we know is that there are more consequences to covid than death and our children luckily -- the majority survive. however, we're seeing pediatric icus are being overfilled a that point. there's no place for these children to be taken care of to be able to live and survive, and if we're...

Abbott's threat. judge brown you have done so in direct contra convention of the law that your governor says is going to goat you in trouble. why? >> because, frankly, the threats from our governor and our attorney general are nothing compared to the threats faced by our children when they go back to school, the threats of getting sick, threats of potentially dying. and our icu numbers are filling up. in north texas judge jenkins told me yesterday that the pediatric icus were full. in austin and travis county our adult icus are full. and we have kids in the pediatric icus as well. it's the rig...