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So this is about using common sense and keeping our kids safe. and i just -- i don't -- i do not believe that he believes some of the things he's saying. or his wife doesn't, one of the two. >> go ahead, john, finish your point. >> i mean the point is if he believed what he was saying, why isn't he sending his kids to school? he pulled his kids from school, what, back in august. so he wants our kids to go to school. we live in the largest county with the most cases. my niece works in miami children's hospital and they're just full there. the whole state of florida is full, and i'm talking chil...

Some of the rapid tests and so far they're negative. >> we got both today and they're negative. so the masks worked. they really did. >> nobody thinks the mask is perfect. nobody should think the vaccine is perfect, but they help. you guys are concerned about your kid. you're concerned about you, but, john, you're also concerned about your parents, right? >> correct. i mean a child gets it if they have masks i believe they're protected. if they don't have masks like some of the counties in the state of florida, they get it, the teachers get it. as you said 13 teachers here in miami-dade county...

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...

But thank god our pcr test literally came back two hours ago. >> here's the good news, he's got plenty of energy and i like the spiderman shirt. luckily it's not iron man or we've got a problem. happy new year. it's not getting off to a great start, though, for us caring for one another. why is let parents choose not good enough? >> for our situation it's not good because as you can say just put our child in danger not necessarily in his school, but he has asthma. so when parents send their kids to school without a mask on they potentially expose him which could be fatal. so for us if you don'...

You john but also you, robin. you're part of a separate federal suit with other parents claiming that desantis' mandatory school mask ban violates the ada, americans with disabilities act, because it places your medically sensitive kids, you know, him having asthma in jeopardy. what's the update from the lawyers in that suit? >> they just had a hearing today. i believe desantis was arguing we hadn't exhausted all the remedies. but that's kind of a moot point because we're saying all children should have access to safe schools, so i think we're waiting on the judge's ruling and we're going to g...