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Exposes my kid to. see, that's where your freedom to do what you want ends, right? you get to do what you want until it impacts somebody else and their freedom. the governor knows this. he's an ivy league trained lawyer. he knew a judge would likely not allow him to ban masks. meanwhile parents are paying the price for the politics. let's bring in two of them who are part of a lawsuit that led to this florida judge's ruling today to allow mask mandates in schools without punishment. john and robin mccarthy. they got a 6-year-old, liam, got asthma. he's now quarantining at home because he was e...

Exposes my kid to. see, that's where your freedom to do what you want ends, right? you get to do what you want until it impacts somebody else and their freedom. the governor knows this. he's an ivy league trained lawyer. he knew a judge would likely not allow him to ban masks. meanwhile parents are paying the price for the politics. let's bring in two of them who are part of a lawsuit that led to this florida judge's ruling today to allow mask mandates in schools without punishment. john and robin mccarthy. they got a 6-year-old, liam, got asthma. he's now quarantining at home because he was e...

A judge ruled those districts are within their rights. >> the law expressly permits school boards to adopt policies regarding the healthcare of students, such as a face mask mandate, even if a parent disagrees with that policy. >> reporter: robin mccarthy, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, is relieved. her six-year-old son, who has asthma, attends a miami-dade public school where masks are mandatory. >> he has a right to a safe education, and it's-- you know, he can't help that he has asthma, and he has a right to be in school just like everybody else. >> reporter: the ruling comes as the c.d.c. war...

Parents aren't able to see them because they have to wait outside because they don't want this to spread. and this is what i would say to them, is that when a child comes in with covid that isn't wearing a mask -- when a child has covid and they wear a mask they're protecting not just themselves but the other children. and that's what we're really worried about, is that he's wearing a mask and another child isn't and it gets in the air and he ends up with covid and he has a pre-existing condition, he has asthma. i had a nephew that was in the hospital two weeks on this. and my sister had to st...

For people to be comfortable with that idea. but i think we're starting to see that with vaccination requirements for adults. at some point we are going to see that vaccinations for children is really important to keep them safe and to stop the spread of this pandemic. >> dr. wen, as always, thanks so much for your expertise. >> thank you, michael. >> many florida parents aren't happy about the governor's new ban on mask mandates as i just referenced. and some are now suing. two of those parents join me. john and robin mccarthy. their son is heading into first grade. he has asthma. welcome to ...