House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) endorsed a replacement for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) in the House GOP leadership on Sunday ahead of a vote that is expected to happen this week.
McCarthy made the remarks after reports surfaced on Friday that Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is expected to initiate a call on Wednesday morning to remove Cheney from her position as House Republican Conference Chair.
&#8220;Democrats are destroying this nation,&#8221; McCarthy said. “We’ve watched the greatest expansion of government [in] this socialist liberal agenda. We watched them destroy our borders, where hundreds of thousands are coming across, not being tested for COVID. We&#8217;re catching people on the terrorist watch list.”
&#8220;You’ve got the destruction of our energy. You’ve got the largest missed jobs report [in] more than two decades,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;To defeat Nancy Pelosi and the socialist agenda, we need to be united — and that starts with leadership. That&#8217;s why we will have a vote next week. And we want to be united in looking, moving forward. And I think that&#8217;s what will take place.&#8221;
One of the few names that has been floated to replace Cheney is Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who voted with Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cheney-stefanik-republicans-house-votes-trump-conservative">less</a> than Cheney did. When asked if he supports Stefanik for the job, McCarthy answered, &#8220;Yes, I do.&#8221;
&#8220;What we&#8217;re talking about, it&#8217;s a position in leadership. We are in one of our biggest battles ever for this nation and the direction, whether this next century will be ours,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;As conference chair, you have one of the most critical jobs as the messenger of going forward. Are we talking about what the Democrats are doing on the border? Are we talking about all the missed jobs report [sic] that we just had? Are we building an economy? [We&#8217;re] watching Joe Biden create inflation that we’ve never seen before, a takeover of government, the rising of taxes, the damage of what will be done that we cannot come back for.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s why we need a conference that&#8217;s united,&#8221; McCarthy continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we need a conference chair that is delivering that message day in and day out and uniting the nation to make sure that we are on the right footing going forward.&#8221;
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Kevin McCarthy Endorses A Replacement For Liz Cheney In House Leadership With Vote Scheduled This Week

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Jeff Zients, the Biden administration&#8217;s COVID-19 response coordinator, said on Sunday that the Biden administration will eventually &#8220;allow&#8221; people who have been vaccinated &#8220;more and more privileges to take off that mask.&#8221;
Zients, who made the remarks on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with host Jake Tapper, was confronted by Tapper over numerous issues related to wearing masks, including the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-asks-white-house-official-whether-biden-is-overly-cautious-with-face-masks">message</a> that President Joe Biden sends to people when he wears a mask in a room full of vaccinated people.
&#8220;I think one of the reasons why journalists are annoyingly harping on this, and some health experts are, is because there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and President Biden being able to take off his mask in a room full of journalists and White House staffers, all of whom are fully vaccinated, is a demonstration that the vaccines work,&#8221; Tapper said. You and I are both vaccinated, and you and I are in a room together talking, and I have no fear that I&#8217;m going to get the virus from you, and I assume vice versa, and I think the concern is that, by being overly cautious, the signal is going out to the public that there isn&#8217;t necessarily a light at the end of the tunnel.&#8221;
Zients responded by saying that everyone is tired of wearing a mask because they are &#8220;a pain&#8221; and added that the Biden administration would eventually give people some of their &#8220;privileges&#8221; back if they get vaccinated.
&#8220;And the light at the end of the tunnel is brighter and brighter. Let&#8217;s keep up our guard. Let&#8217;s follow the CDC guidance,&#8221; Zients said. &#8220;And the CDC guidance across time will allow vaccinated people more and more privileges to take off that mask.&#8221;
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<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Joining me now, the White House COVID response coordinator, Jeffrey Zients. Jeffrey, thanks so much for being here. We appreciate it.
JEFF ZIENTS, WHITE HOUSE COVID-19 RESPONSE COORDINATOR: Well, thank you, Jake.
Can I start just by wishing all the moms out there happy Mother&#8217;s Day?
TAPPER: Of course. Happy Mother&#8217;s Day.
ZIENTS: Well, but I also want to plead with all moms to ask for one present from their loved ones, which is that they get vaccinated.
If a mom’s not vaccinated, give yourself a present and get vaccinated. And happy Mom&#8217;s Day to my mom and to my lovely wife.
TAPPER: Both of whom are vaccinated, I assume.
ZIENTS: A hundred percent.
TAPPER: So, six weeks ago, Dr. Fauci said that we were at the corner in the pandemic. Since then, the U.S. has vaccinated more than 60 million people. Daily cases fell almost 40 percent in the last month.
Has the United States turned the corner?
ZIENTS: I would say we are turning the corner.
We now have, as of this morning, 58 percent of adult Americans with at least one shot, over 110 million Americans fully vaccinated. The president has set a goal of 70 percent of Americans being vaccinated with at least one shot by July 4. We&#8217;re at 58 percent today. So, we have got a path ahead of us, which will involve getting people even easier access to the vaccine, people — making sure that people build their confidence, those who have questions about the vaccine, that we answer their questions, and making sure that we do what we have done from the beginning, which is do this in a fair and equitable way.
TAPPER: So, let&#8217;s talk about the fact that the pace of vaccinations is slowing down. Some of that is because of access, as you [note], but some of it is because of vaccine skepticism. It&#8217;s now at 2.1 million doses a day, down almost 40 percent from its peak last month.
Who are the key groups of Americans you&#8217;re focusing on targeting right now? Young Americans, Republicans, rural Americans? And how are you targeting them?
ZIENTS: Well, it&#8217;s sort of all of the above, Jake.
I mean, what&#8217;s happened is, we have gotten to 58 percent faster than we expected. So, we&#8217;re entering a new phase, where access is really important and building confidence is really important. So, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re focused on. And I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s all of the above.
We want everyone to get vaccinated. We have enough supply for all adult Americans to get vaccinated. We just want to make it easier and easier for people to get vaccinated. And for those who do have questions about efficacy or about safety, the three vaccines, the three authorized vaccines, are all very safe and very effective.
So, we want people to be able to turn to their — to their trusted leader in their neighborhood, their doctor, their faith leader, to get information about the vaccines to build vaccine confidence, so all Americans get vaccinated.
TAPPER: In retrospect, was it a mistake to put a hold on the J&amp;J vaccine, in terms of confidence? Did that make your task harder?
ZIENTS: No, not at all. I mean, the FDA is the gold standard in the world. And the FDA is constantly monitoring for safety. And doing the pause was the right thing. That builds confidence, that people know that the FDA and the CDC are monitoring.
TAPPER: Not necessarily. I mean, it should build confidence.
ZIENTS: It actually shows — the research showed, after the pause, that confidence overall in the vaccines increased after the pause.
TAPPER: With the pace of vaccinations slowing, and so many Americans still hesitant, is it possible that the United States will never achieve herd immunity?
ZIENTS: Look, we don&#8217;t know exactly what herd immunity is. And that&#8217;s not an area that I know much about. I look to Dr. Fauci and the other medical experts.
What the experts do say is reaching 70 percent will continue to — a pattern of decreasing cases, hospitalizations, and deaths and take us down to a sustainable low level. If we look to Israel, where they have achieved that level of vaccination, their deaths, hospitalizations are much, much lower than they were. And they&#8217;re at a very low, sustainable level.
TAPPER: How concerned are you that the U.S. could face another surge of the virus in the fall because of unvaccinated Americans going back indoors or because of these variants?
ZIENTS: Look, what we&#8217;re focused on right now is getting people vaccinated, with the 70 percent goal the president has set for July 4.
We will continue to get people vaccinated after July 4. What all the doctors, all the experts say is, when people get vaccinated, we get safer and safer and closer and closer to a more normal lifestyle.
TAPPER: Take a listen to what President Biden had to say about wearing a mask indoors. This is just on Friday.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
QUESTION: Why do you choose to wear a mask so often when you&#8217;re vaccinated and you&#8217;re around other people who are vaccinated?
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Because I&#8217;m worried about you. No, that&#8217;s a joke. It&#8217;s a joke.
Why am — why am I wearing the mask? Because, when we&#8217;re inside, it&#8217;s still good policy to wear the mask.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TAPPER: Is it really necessary for a fully vaccinated person to wear a mask at a limited indoor gathering, if everyone there is vaccinated?
ZIENTS: Well, the CDC has given guidance that, when you&#8217;re with family and friends that are vaccinated in small groups, you don&#8217;t need a mask.
TAPPER: So, why does President Biden, in a room full of vaccinated journalists, with everybody in that room vaccinated, why does he need to wear a mask?
ZIENTS: The president is going to continue to follow the CDC guidance.
We — it&#8217;s just a matter of a few weeks ago when all states made vaccines eligible for all Americans. So, there still are Americans who want to get vaccinated, who may just have their first shot and are waiting for their second shot, or who haven&#8217;t had an opportunity yet to get their first shot.
And we want those folks to get vaccinated. And the July 4 deadline is a really good — or goal — is a really good goal that the president has set of 70 percent of all Americans with at least their first shot by July 4.
TAPPER: Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says that the CDC could consider lifting indoor mask mandates right now. And, in fact, he is suggesting that that will be a sign of confidence to show that everything is science-based and that there is an end of the tunnel. There&#8217;s&#8230;
ZIENTS: We&#8217;re going to look to the CDC.
The president from day one has said we&#8217;re going to look for — we&#8217;re going to rely on science and facts. And that&#8217;s what we will do. The CDC has, across the last several weeks, given guidance for vaccinated people to do indoor gatherings with other vaccinated people, as I talked about earlier, to not wear masks outside, except when you&#8217;re in a very crowded place.
And we look forward to further guidance from the CDC about what the advantages are of being vaccinated.
What is clear is, anyone who&#8217;s not vaccinated should get vaccinated.
TAPPER: No, I agree.
But I think one of the reasons why journalists are annoyingly harping on this, and some health experts are, is because there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and President Biden being able to take off his mask in a room full of journalists and White House staffers, all of whom are fully vaccinated, is a demonstration that the vaccines work.
You and I are both vaccinated, and you and I are in a room together talking, and I have no fear that I&#8217;m going to get the virus from you, and I assume vice versa.
And I think the concern is that, by being overly cautious, the signal is going out to the public that there isn&#8217;t necessarily a light at the end of the tunnel. Do you understand why people are&#8230;
ZIENTS: Well, I think everyone is tired, and wearing a mask is — it can be a pain.
But we&#8217;re getting there. And the light at the end of the tunnel is brighter and brighter. Let&#8217;s keep up our guard. Let&#8217;s follow the CDC guidance.
And the CDC guidance across time will allow vaccinated people more and more privileges to take off that mask.
TAPPER: A new CNN poll shows that four in 10 vaccinated Americans — OK, these are all vaccinated — 40 percent still say they do not feel comfortable returning to their routines.
Would you like to see more vaccinated Americans embrace their immunity and resume their routines, if it&#8217;s safe, if everybody in their&#8230;
ZIENTS: We all want to get back to a normal lifestyle.
TAPPER: Right.
ZIENTS: I think we&#8217;re on the path to do that.
But stay disciplined. And let&#8217;s take advantage of the new privileges of being vaccinated and not wearing mask outdoors, for example, unless you&#8217;re in a crowded place. And as we all move toward that 70 percent goal, there will be more and more advantages to being vaccinated.
And if you&#8217;re not vaccinated, you&#8217;re not protected.
TAPPER: Yes.
Both Pfizer and Moderna say that booster shots of their vaccines will likely be needed.
It&#8217;s been six months since the first shots in the U.S. Could Americans be getting booster shots as soon as this fall?
ZIENTS: Look, we&#8217;re going to look to Dr. Fauci, the FDA as to the timing and necessity of a booster shot. If boosters are necessary, we will certainly be ready, as we have been for all contingencies, and we will have sufficient supply.
TAPPER: So, you&#8217;re focused on the virus and the vaccine, not on the economy. I get that.
But I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t acknowledge you were the former director of the National Economic Council under President Obama, and there&#8217;s some developments in the economy. I&#8217;d love to get your thoughts. I realized that this is not — I&#8217;m not going to go into detail.
But I do want to ask you. Friday&#8217;s jobs report, only 266,000 jobs were created, instead of the one million expected. President Biden has repeatedly cited a study estimating the U.S. would create seven million jobs this year under the American Rescue Plan.
So far, it&#8217;s fewer than two million. Do you still think that seven million is&#8230;
ZIENTS: So, look, Jake, my 24/7 focus is&#8230;
TAPPER: Yes.
ZIENTS: &#8230; fighting this pandemic. And that&#8217;s key for the economy. It&#8217;s not only key for us returning to a more normal lifestyle, but it&#8217;s also key for us building back better, for people to get vaccinated, and get vaccinated as soon as possible.
You know, the president across the first 100 days created more jobs than any president in history. One of the things I did learn as NEC director is not to pay too much attention to any one data point in any one month. If you look past across — if you look back across the last three months, we have averaged 500,000 jobs. That compares to 60,000 jobs created per month in the prior administration during their last three months.
So, we&#8217;re headed in the right direction. But it&#8217;s a long path out of the — out of the difficult period of time that we have had because of the pandemic.
TAPPER: I know that it&#8217;s a complicated issue, but there are governors now who are going to go off the enhanced federal unemployment insurance because they think it&#8217;s a disincentive for people to go out to work.
As somebody with opinions about disincentives and incentives, do you think that that&#8217;s possible, that the enhanced unemployment insurance, while obviously well-intentioned, is creating a disincentive for some Americans?
ZIENTS: Look, people want to work. And, in fact, labor force participation, those people who are looking for jobs, went up last month.
There are still difficult hurdles for people working, including health concerns around the pandemic, childcare. So, the American Rescue Plan was a really important piece of legislation, a historic piece of legislation to help us recover and build back better.
TAPPER: Lastly, President Biden set this goal of 70 percent Americans vaccinated by July 4.
What about beyond July 4? Where do you hope to be by Labor Day, assuming you get to 70 percent by the 4th? By Labor Day, do you want to be at 80 percent, 90 percent?
ZIENTS: We just want more and more people to get vaccinated, so 70 percent first dose by July 4. Everyone should get their second dose, if it&#8217;s a two-dose regimen, as soon as they&#8217;re scheduled to do so, three weeks after their first dose of Pfizer, four after Moderna.
And after July 4, we will continue to vaccinate as many Americans as we can.
TAPPER: All right, Jeff Zients, thank you so much for being here.
ZIENTS: Thank you for the opportunity.
TAPPER: Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to your wife and your mom. 
ZIENTS: And back to you.
TAPPER: Thanks.
ZIENTS: Thank you.</blockquote>
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Dr. Fauci And COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients Brief The Media At The White House

Biden’s Pandemic Coordinator: CDC Will ‘Allow’ Vaccinated People ‘More Privileges’ To Take Off Mask

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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) slammed President Joe Biden during a news conference on Monday over the Biden administration&#8217;s actions relating to the pandemic, saying that what Biden is doing is anti-science.
The remarks come after DeSantis was praised by Jayanta Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at the University of Stanford, who said that DeSantis was unlike any politician he has ever met. &#8220;He’s extraordinary,” Bhattacharya <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stanford-medical-professor-on-desantis-covid-success-because-hes-very-well-informed-better-than-most-epidemiologists">said</a>, adding that DeSantis understands the science better than &#8220;most epidemiologists.&#8221;
DeSantis made the remarks during a ceremony where he signed a bill that &#8220;ensures that neither the state nor local governments can close business or keep kids out of in-person instruction, unless they satisfy demanding and continuous justifications&#8221; and also limits the power of local authorities to implement local emergency orders. The bill also gives him the power to invalidate any local emergency order in the state.
&#8220;I think there have been two very harmful things that have been done recently, in terms of increasing vaccine hesitancy,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;The first was how the FDA and CDC handled the Johnson and Johnson [vaccine]. Look, when you’re dealing with these vaccines, you always want to see if there’s an issue. You can put out appropriate warnings, particularly if it’s for a certain demographic, but by hastily taking it effectively off the market, I think that that’s caused confidence in, at least that vaccine, to plummet. And that was a very high demand vaccine prior to that happening. So, I think that was handled in a way that has increased the hesitancy of people to get the vaccine.&#8221;
&#8220;And then I think the other thing, quite frankly, is when you have people, particularly in Washington, saying, &#8216;Yeah, get vaccinated, but then make sure you continue to social distance and wear masks all the time,&#8217; well, the message that that sends to people is that the vaccines don’t work,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;Because if the vaccines worked, that would be your ticket to basically live normally, and make decisions for yourself. That would be the message that actually would work with people. So, I think that they’ve sent a message to say, &#8216;You know what? Get vaccinated, but it really isn’t going to do anything for you.'&#8221;
&#8220;Well, why would someone want to put something in their arm if they don’t think it’s effective?&#8221; DeSantis added. &#8220;And the fact of the matter is, that is an anti-science posture, to say that we need all these restrictions even with mass vaccination. Because the numbers of the vaccines are better than the clinical trials were, in terms of the effectiveness. If you look at CDC, I think they have over 95 million people have now been vaccinated. The people that have been re-infected or infected after vaccine, has been way less than one-tenth of 1%. These numbers are about as good as you could possibly hope for. So my message is the vaccines protect you, get vaccinated, and then live your life as if you’re protected. You don’t have to chafe under restrictions infinitum.&#8221;
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<blockquote>RON DESANTIS, GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA: Got everybody? Here they come. Well, it’s great to be at the Big Catch and be here in St. Petersburg. I want to thank our legislators who are here, President Simpson, Chris Sprowls, speaker. We also have Danny Burgess, Tom Lee, Nick DiCeglie, Linda Chaney, and Tracy Koster. And I want to thank all of them for doing a great job during this legislative session. We’re here to do one of the bills that I think it is worth pointing out, that there was a whole host of successes in this legislative session. If you look at some of the things we’ve been working on with education, with environmental restoration, if you look at mental health, if you look at the health of our budget.
A year ago, people were saying we were in dire straits, that this was just got to be something that we weren’t going to be able to recover from. We’ve doubled the rainy day fund, we have 9.2 billion in total reserves. So, it was a budget that really is meeting, I think, a lot of the needs of our state, but also doing it in a very responsible way, and in a way that actually makes us more resilient to deal with future downturns. So, I want to thank them for their efforts on that.
One of the things that we spoke about very early on, both with the speaker and President Simpson, was we need a new construct for these emergency powers that have been used throughout the country, lesser so, obviously from the State of Florida’s perspective, but certainly we’ve had local governments do it. If you would have told us three years ago, when I was running for governor, “Hey, there’s going to be a pandemic,” that would have obviously been something that people would have been concerned about. But I don’t think anyone at that time would have thought that the fact that you would have a pandemic, would allow governors to seize power to lock kids out of school for a year, to lock businesses down, to constantly be issuing edicts, restricting people, fining people, doing all this basically infinitum. I think maybe people thought there would be a small time, but to be doing that was something that, I certainly wouldn’t have foreseen that that would have been acceptable.
Now in the State of Florida, we worked very hard particularly since the summer, to jettison those types of policies, and we focused on lifting people up. We wanted people going back to work, we wanted our kids to be in school, we thought that that was very important that parents have the ability to send their kids to school. And we wanted our economy to be healthy, we wanted our society to be healthy. We wanted people to be happy living in Florida, and so that was the path that we trotted. It was the road less traveled at the time, but I think we’re sitting here now and we see the state’s much more prosperous as a result of that, and that was the right way.
At the same time, you look around and there have been areas that have been under the yoke of some serious restrictions and lockdowns for months, and months, and months on end. In fact, you have local governments in other parts of the country, they just did, I read Brookline, Massachusetts did an outdoor mask mandate, or extended that. Even the CDC says that doesn’t make a difference. Washington DC just banned dancing at weddings, so they’re literally going to have law enforcement there, policing people’s weddings that say you can’t dance, when this is the day you’ve been waiting for? It’s insane.
And so, I think what the legislature did was very thoughtful, it has my full support. It not only reins in the ability of local governments to do this stuff, it provides more check against the State, which I fully support. They didn’t need to use these checks against me because I was using this much more judiciously. And in fact if you look, our emergency order has basically been in place to do three main things since the summer: keep schools open, because we needed the emergency to be able to help the funding for the schools, move money in case of vaccine or any type of response that we’ve had to do, and then more recently, to make sure that we can’t have vaccine passports in the State of Florida. That’s really it, that’s how we’ve used it. But I think the legislature looked and said, “Well, okay, what if we weren’t a California situation? What would the legislature’s ability be?” And so, they put safeguards for the people of Florida, where the legislature would be able to come in and potentially overrule any type of executive order, emergency order issued by a governor. And I support that.
And my staff, I remember we were talking about, “Why would you want them to be able to potentially do that?” I said, “You know what? If I’m issuing orders, that these guys are willing to call themselves back into Tallahassee, into some special session to be able to overrule them, maybe I need to reevaluate what we’re doing,” and any other governor should have to do that as well. But I think most importantly was the protections this provides for families, for workers and for businesses. The legislation creates a default legal presumption that during any emergency, our businesses should be free from government mandates to close, and our schools should remain open for in-person instruction for our children.
That actually was the pre-COVID pandemic playbook. No one advocated a year-long restriction or lockdown on business or schools like we’ve seen in these other states. And I think over the last years, we’ve seen some of the abuses, we want to make sure that we stop that here. Here at the Big Catch, they’ve had to deal with some of these local ordinances, local restrictions. We’re going to have John come up and talk about, I know they’ve been fined for doing things, and we want that to be something in the past. Now, since last summer we’ve said no on individuals, and that’s something we suspended in March. I remitted any outstanding fines for both individuals and businesses. I’m here to tell you at our next clemency meeting, if there’s any other outstanding fines on either individuals or businesses, we’ll remit that also.
Nevertheless, we are here for this bill signing. And I think that the approach here is showing Florida leading the way again, because I think there’s other states that are probably going a different direction, but here’s some of the highlights. “The bill ensures that neither the state nor local governments can close business or keep kids out of in-person instruction, unless they satisfy demanding and continuous justifications.” One of the things I think has been so problematic about this, is that there are different policies that have been enacted, particularly in other parts of the country, different restrictions or mandates. And they’re done, and then even when the evidence refutes the effectiveness, or the need, or the justification for them, they continue on and sometimes they’re even re-upped. This changes that and make sure that people are protected.
It also says that, “Any local emergency order, excluding hurricane emergencies are capped at seven day increments, and may only be extended to a maximum duration of 42 days.” And most importantly as governor, I’ll have the authority to invalidate a local emergency order, if it unnecessarily restricts individual rights or liberties. So what we’re doing, and I think also where we find ourselves today in the State of Florida, we have a majority of our adult population has been vaccinated. At this point, the people that haven’t been vaccinated is certainly not because a lack of supply or a lack of availability.
At the end of December, beginning of January, we had millions of people that wanted it, we had hundreds of thousands of doses. We’ve worked through the high demand population, particularly the seniors, over 80% have received shots. As you go further down the age bracket, the demand is simply less. But we have more than enough vaccine, if you want a vaccine, you have an ability to get it. I think then that the retail footprint alone is tremendous in the State of Florida. And I know some other things folks are trying to figure out, okay, how do we move these vaccines now?
I think there have been two very harmful things that have been done recently, in terms of increasing vaccine hesitancy. The first was how the FDA and CDC handled the Johnson and Johnson. Look, when you’re dealing with these vaccines, you always want to see if there’s an issue. You can put out appropriate warnings, particularly if it’s for a certain demographic, but by hastily taking it effectively off the market, I think that that’s caused confidence in at least that vaccine, to plummet. And that was a very high demand vaccine prior to that happening. So, I think that was handled in a way that has increased the hesitancy of people to get the vaccine.
And then I think the other thing quite frankly is, when you have people particularly in Washington saying, “Yeah, get vaccinated, but then make sure you continue to social distance and wear masks all the time,” well, the message that that sends to people is that the vaccines don’t work. Because if the vaccines worked, that would be your ticket to basically live normally, and make decisions for yourself. That would be the message that actually would work with people. So, I think that they’ve sent a message to say, “You know what? Get vaccinated, but it really isn’t going to do anything for you.” Well, why would someone want to put something in their arm if they don’t think it’s effective?
And the fact of the matter is, that is an anti-science posture, to say that we need all these restrictions even with mass vaccination. Because the numbers of the vaccines are better than the clinical trials were, in terms of the effectiveness. If you look at CDC, I think they have over 95 million people have now been vaccinated. The people that have been reinfected or infected after vaccine, has been way less than one 10th of 1%. These numbers are about as good as you could possibly hope for. So my message is the vaccines protect you, get vaccinated, and then live your life as if you’re protected. You don’t have to chafe under restrictions infinitum. So I’m hoping that we’re going to be able to get a little bit more uptake. We are going to be doing PSAs. I know we’ve started some of that, to basically send the message that this is good. Even if you’re a lower risk, I think that this vaccine has been so effective that even a low risk person dramatically reduces it. So we want to be able to do that, but we are happy that we have so many different options for vaccines.
And look, our goal was seniors first. We’re seeing that pay off with the hospitalization rates for seniors. That would not have happened, I think, had we taken another path and put seniors either second or third in line. So we’re happy with doing that. So now today I’m going to let the legislatures come up. But what I’m going to do, I’m going to sign the bill. It’s effective July 1st. I’ll also sign an executive order pursuant to that bill invalidating all remaining local emergency COVID orders, effective on July 1st. But then to bridge the gap between then and now, I’m going to suspend, under my executive power, the local emergency orders as it relates to COVID. I think that’s the evidence-based thing to do. I think folks that are saying that they need to be policing people at this point, if you’re saying that, you really are saying you don’t believe in the vaccines, you don’t believe in the data, you don’t believe in the science.
We’ve embraced the vaccines. We’ve embraced the science on it. The data I’ve said has been good from the beginning in terms of clinical trials. It’s even better in real life. So it’s available, we want everyone to get it. And if you get it, just know that the reason you get it is because we want to be able to have people enjoy themselves and live freely in the state of Florida. So thank you guys for doing this. I think that this was something that we don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, but I think this creates a structure that’s going to be a little bit more respectful, I think, of people’s businesses, jobs, schools, and personal freedom. So Senator Simpson?</blockquote>
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The Biden administration&#8217;s Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse said on Sunday that Americans will experience inflation because President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has been spending a massive amount of money.
Fox News host Chris Wallace noted that adjusting for the rate of inflation, Biden&#8217;s proposed $6 trillion in spending through his first 100 days in office is &#8220;more than six times what the nation spent to get us out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.&#8221;
Several minutes later, Wallace pointed out how former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who was an advisor to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, has said that the prices of goods are already increasing.
&#8220;Can you guarantee with all the spending that we’re not going to have a new round of overheating the economy and serious inflation?&#8221; Wallace asked.
&#8220;These are very serious concerns and we know that coming out of an extremely deep recession that there are going to be bumps along the way. So we expect that there have been supply chain disruptions that will cause some transitory increases in prices,&#8221; Rouse answered. &#8220;We know that there are some places where employers are struggling to find workers because, let&#8217;s face it, we’re still in the middle of the pandemic. Some workers would like to go back to work but they don&#8217;t have child care, their schools are not open, and the pandemic is still out of control in certain parts of our country.&#8221;
&#8220;So when we get to the other side of this pandemic, I fully expect that our labor market will come back and be flourishing. That said, we do expect some transitory price increases. The Fed expects that as well. We do not see evidence that at the moment those are &#8212; have become what we call de-anchored so that we expect runaway inflation,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;But that said, we know we have to be vigilant and we are watching the data. But for the time being, we expect at most transitory inflation, that is what we expect coming out of a big recession.&#8221;
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<blockquote>CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY ANCHOR: And joining us now, Cecilia Rouse, chair of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors.
Ms. Rouse, let&#8217;s start by putting President Biden&#8217;s plans in historical context. Adjusting for inflation, the programs passed during the New Deal cost $856 billion. Recovery from the great recession in 2009 cost $1.8 trillion.
But in just over 100 days, President Biden has proposed more than $6 trillion in new spending.
Ms. Rouse, you really want to spend more than six times what the nation spent to get us out of the Great Depression in the 1930s?
CECILIA ROUSE, COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS CHAIR: Well, thank you, Chris.
Let&#8217;s be clear, the first part of what President Biden was spending is the American Rescue Plan. We’re in an economic recession caused by a pandemic and that was critical support which went to families and businesses to help them get to the other side of the pandemic. And even more important, it provided the funding for an effective and comprehensive vaccination rollout.
It&#8217;s because of those shots in the arm, it&#8217;s because of the support the families and businesses have had that we started to see our economy come back. Last week’s numbers suggest our &#8212; a growth in the first quarter, increased by about 6 percent. We see that unemployment insurance claims are coming down. So the first tranche of that was to get us to the other side of the pandemic.
The other two parts are about investing in our future. What you &#8212; to put the spending in context is in the last four years, we&#8217;ve been disinvesting from our economy.
And so, what these plans do is they put &#8212; would put money into the foundations of growth. Those are infrastructure, research and development and innovation, education because we know human capital is so important, and yes, the support the families need in order to be able to go work because allowing workers to go to work, increasing our labor supply, is also critically important for sustaining our economy and ensuring we remain the most competitive economy in the world.
WALLACE: But you take my point, it&#8217;s six times what we spent in the New Deal, it&#8217;s three times what we spent for the great recession as you point out where the economy is right now.
I want to take a look at that because the economy is doing pretty well. Let&#8217;s put up the numbers. GDP in the first quarter rose, as you said, at an annual rate of 6.4 percent. The unemployment rate has dropped from a pandemic high of 14.7 percent now to 6 percent and the Federal Reserve is keeping short-term interest rates near zero.
With things going so well, why not trust the private sector to do its job and to keep the economy growing, people to get jobs, and get the country back on its way, do it by the private sector, not the public sector?
ROUSE: So, Chris, first of all, this is not an either/or. But those numbers reflect that we are just turning to come out of the recession. The numbers are, look, eye-popping because of what we call base effect because they were so very low last year but we’re not done yet. Next week, we will also get an employment report.
I expect to see robust job gains but I also expect we&#8217;re going to remind ourselves that we’re still 7 million or 8 million jobs down from where we were this time last year.
So we are definitely on the move. This is an economy that&#8217;s recovering. We are leading the world and that recovery but we’re not done yet.
WALLACE: Part of this, I think, Ms. Rouse, is a basic philosophical argument about how &#8212; what kind of a country we want to be.
Here is Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell this week. Take a look.
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MCCONNELL: Behind President Biden&#8217;s familiar face it&#8217;s like the most radical Washington Democrats have been handed the keys. And they&#8217;re trying to speed as far left as they can possibly go before American voters ask for the car back.
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WALLACE: President Biden is saying that he wants government to pay for child care. He wants government to pay for preschool and not just for the poor, but for the middle class, and it will be government that picks winners and losers.
Is that the kind of country we want to have, Ms. Rouse?
ROUSE: This &#8212; we want to have a country that has robust growth, that is widely shared, and that is innovating for the future. What we are proposing here are for a government to step in in places where we know the private sector doesn&#8217;t do so well.
For example, I think we’re the envy of the world in the speed with which the vaccinations, specifically those by Pfizer and Moderna, were rolled out, developed and rolled out in the past year. That was breathtaking. It&#8217;s the reason why we’re on path to &#8212; to get out of this pandemic &#8212; pandemic and in this recession.
The basic research that was the backbone of the vaccine developments was funded by the government. We know that when it comes to risky investments, the private sector will not make them. We know that when it comes to goods where the private sector can&#8217;t recoup all of the returns, the private sector doesn&#8217;t fully invest.
So the strategy here is to really create a partnership between the public sector and the private sector where for both sides to be making the investments that make the most sense, so that we can really increase growth. We know that the investments &#8212; when government invests in research, that crowds in the private sector. The private sector then builds on top of that and makes even further investment. This is not either/or, this is both/and.
WALLACE: So there&#8217;s not only big disagreement about the spending part of the Biden plan. There&#8217;s also a sharp disagreement about how you&#8217;re going to pay for it.
I want to put up the combined U.S. corporate tax rates. And when I say combined, both the federal tax rates and the state corporate tax rates. Take a look at this.
As it stands now with the Trump tax cuts, the U.S. is in the middle of industrial nations at 25.8 percent. But with the tax hike that President Biden is proposing, the U.S. corporate tax rate would once again be the highest in the industrial world at 32.3 percent.
Ms. Rouse, how can you argue that that isn&#8217;t going to hurt U.S. competitiveness in the corporate sphere? How can you argue that that isn&#8217;t going to drive some U.S. businesses overseas?
ROUSE: Well, I would say two things here. First is that President Biden fundamentally believes that government can be very effective and is important and that we all need to pay our fair share. And what we&#8217;ve seen over the past several decades is that the wealthiest Americans, the big corporations, are getting wealthier and they are contributing less in terms of federal revenue.
So, the first &#8212; the first point is to ensure that everybody pays their fair share, not to increase taxes on the middle class. So, not to increase taxes on anybody making less than $400,000 a year.
The second point is the corporate tax rate is really being proposed do not even go back to where it was in 2017, just to have an increase. And I think what we can also see is that with the tax cuts that have happened in 2017 when we reduced the corporate tax rate so dramatically, we have not seen a similar increase in investment and corporate competitiveness.
So President Biden is really saying, look, everyone should pay their fair share and yes, internationally, we don&#8217;t want to be disadvantaged. So he is also working with other countries so that we have a minimum tax internationally so that there&#8217;s not a race to the back &#8212;
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WALLACE: But, Ms. Rouse, don’t you think &#8212; don&#8217;t you think that we’re going to be less competitive if we’re at &#8212; have the highest corporate tax rate in the world as opposed to in the middle of the industrial world? Doesn&#8217;t that just necessarily say we&#8217;ve become less competitive?
ROUSE: So we don&#8217;t &#8212; of course, we don&#8217;t want to, you know, hamper U.S. competitiveness. You know, to the contrary.
The idea is to ensure that corporations are paying their fair share, to button up some of the loopholes which have been really not &#8212; which have meant that corporations were actually putting more money offshore, off of the U.S. oil. And having a global minimum tax so that we’re working with our trading partners, working with the rest of the world so that corporations are paying their fair share worldwide.
We do not want to be hampering corporations but we do want to ensure that they are paying their fair share as well.
WALLACE: Then there is inflation. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who was an advisor both to President Bill Clinton and to Barack Obama, says this, and let&#8217;s put it up.
There are already labor shortages in food services and retail. We’re already seeing spikes in the price of lumber and housing.
And I can add to that, we’re also seeing spikes in the price of meat and used cars.
Can you guarantee with all the spending that we’re not going to have a new round of overheating the economy and serious inflation?
ROUSE: These are very serious concerns and we know that coming out of an extremely deep recession that they&#8217;re going to be bumps along the way. So we expect that there have been supply chain disruptions that will cause some transitory increases in prices.
We know that there are some places where employers are struggling to find workers because, let&#8217;s face it, we’re still in the middle of the pandemic. Some workers would like to go back to work but they don&#8217;t have child care, their schools are not open, and the pandemic is still out of control in certain parts of our country.
So when we get to the other side of this pandemic, I fully expect that our labor market will come back and be flourishing. That said, we do expect some transitory price increases. The Fed expects that as well. We do not see evidence that at the moment those are &#8212; have become what we call de-anchored so that we expect runaway inflation.
But that said, we know we have to be vigilant and we are watching the data. But for the time being, we expect at most transitory inflation, that is what we expect coming out of a big recession.
WALLACE: I have less than a minute left and I want to ask you one strategy question. There are reports that the president is willing to break up, particularly the infrastructure plan, into chunks to get at least some of it passed with bipartisan support and that Senate Democrats are saying slow, steady, and piecemeal.
As a matter of strategy, is the president willing to break infrastructure into various pieces? And overall, is he willing to settle for considerably less than the $2.25 trillion?
ROUSE: What the president has said is what&#8217;s really important, is that we act now. That inaction is not an &#8212; is not an option. And so he is willing to work with Congress. He&#8217;s open to many ideas.
But he believes, fundamentally, we need to be making these kinds of investments in our country. We need to be, you know, stoking and supporting the kind of innovation that we need to in order to address existential threats such as climate change.
WALLACE: Right.
ROUSE: We need to be investing in our people and we need to be rebuilding infrastructure.
So, the president has said we need to be making these investments. We&#8217;ve been disinvesting over the past 40, 50 years. What&#8217;s not an option is inaction and he&#8217;s open to working with all members of Congress to make that happen.
WALLACE: Ms. Rouse, thank you. Thanks for your time. Please come back.</blockquote>
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Anita Dunn, senior adviser to President Joe Biden, told CNN during an interview on Sunday that Biden has not committed to reopening schools this fall because the pandemic is &#8220;unpredictable.&#8221;
&#8220;President Biden said in an interview that schools should probably all be open in the fall. Can you clarify?&#8221; CNN host Jake Tapper asked. &#8220;Is it the Biden administration&#8217;s position that all K-12 schools should be back full-time, in-person learning start of next school year? And is the Biden White House willing to push back on any teachers unions or others who stake out any position to the contrary not backed up by science?&#8221;
&#8220;Now, he said probably. He didn&#8217;t say absolutely,&#8221; Dunn responded. &#8220;But, given the science, if the vaccination program in this country proceeds, if people do go get their vaccines, there — he does believe that schools should be able to reopen in September, and reopen safely, following the CDC guidelines. But he said probably. He said — did not say absolutely, because we have all seen this since, unfortunately, January of 2020. It&#8217;s an unpredictable virus.&#8221;
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<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Joining me now is senior adviser to President Biden, Anita Dunn. Anita, thanks for joining us today. So, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said on this show last week that he wants Biden&#8217;s infrastructure bill divided up, so that there will be included in it a separate package focused on traditional infrastructure. Are you looking into going that route, splitting up the packages, so you can at least get one bill, infrastructure, passed with bipartisan support in Congress?
ANITA DUNN, SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER: Good morning, Jake, and thank you for having me on this very beautiful Sunday in Washington. President Biden has been clear that he knows this is a negotiation, that he knows that negotiation requires compromise at some point, and that he wants to move this package forward in a bipartisan way, if that&#8217;s possible. He had a very good conversation with West Virginia Senator Capito at the end of last week. She and some of her Republican colleagues had stepped forward with a counterproposal package that does focus around traditional infrastructure. And this is something we plan to have serious discussions with Senator Capito and her colleagues. The president has said his red line is inaction, that we cannot afford not to make these investments in America&#8217;s economy, in America&#8217;s workers, in good jobs for workers. No. We have talked about infrastructure for years. Democrats and Republicans both acknowledge we need to make these investments in making our economy competitive with the global economy. So, we&#8217;re looking forward to having discussions. We are open to people&#8217;s ideas. This is discussion time and idea time for the White House.
TAPPER: So, Biden invited Senate Republicans to meet with him again at the White House for infrastructure negotiations later this month. He has said it&#8217;s a no-go if they&#8217;re only willing to agree to one- fourth or one-fifth of what he&#8217;s proposed, which is $2.3 trillion. Now, as you note, Senator Capito has put together a proposal. It&#8217;s about $600 billion. Would the president be willing to go down from $2.3 trillion to, say, a trillion dollars, in order to reach compromise? I&#8217;m not asking you to negotiate with me, but are you saying that there is a possibility of meeting in the middle somewhere when it comes to how much money to be spent?
DUNN: The president has been clear that he is willing to negotiate, that he&#8217;s willing to compromise, and that he believes that Democrats and Republicans should be able to find common ground on these common goals for our country, goals that both parties agree on, that they believe we need to fix these roads and bridges. But we also need to build the infrastructure for the future. And that means rural areas need broadband as much as urban areas do for an affordable cost. It means that we need to get the lead out of drinking water. It is unconscionable that, in 2021, we still have so many children who are drinking out of fountains at their schools where you have water going through pipes that have lead in them still. So, there is a lot of agreement here, Jake. And I think that what we are going to do at the White House and what President Biden has clearly said he wants to do is to look for those areas of agreement and to build on those.
TAPPER: I want to turn to mask-wearing, because, despite new CDC guidelines saying that fully back vaccinated people like the president generally do not need to wear masks outdoors or even if they&#8217;re indoors with small groups of people who are also vaccinated, but President Biden doesn&#8217;t seem to be following that. He got his shot months ago. He still wears a mask walking outside in public appearances. He still wears a mask indoors with people who are also vaccinated. Former Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen warns that that could actually discourage people from getting vaccinated &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;At best,&#8221; she says, &#8220;it makes public health measures seem performative, rather than science-based. At worst, it calls vaccine efficacy into question.&#8221; Should the president start following these guidelines and stop wearing a mask outdoors, stop wearing a mask indoors when with small groups of other vaccinated Americans, to show the American people there&#8217;s a benefit to getting the vaccine, you can take the mask off?
DUNN: Jake, it&#8217;s interesting that you raise this. I myself found that I was still wearing my mask outdoors this week, because it has become such a matter of habit. I think the president takes the CDC guidelines very seriously. And he&#8217;s always taken his role as sending a signal to follow the science very seriously as well. We do take some extra precautions for him because he is the president of the United States. But I would say that people should follow the CDC guidelines, and they should take advantage of getting the vaccine, getting fully vaccinated, and taking that mask off, particularly as the weather grows so beautiful and we all want to be outside. It&#8217;s a lot more fun to take that outside walk without a mask, that outside bike ride. And I think that, as people get vaccinated, they&#8217;re enjoying it and they&#8217;re enjoying that freedom. So, as we move forward, I think that you will see more and more people enjoying that freedom, getting the vaccine and realizing it&#8217;s one big step towards normalcy in this country.
TAPPER: Yes, more and more people, including the president, perhaps. Let me ask you, because we&#8217;re running out of time, India is experiencing one of the worst COVID outbreaks in the world right now. Hospitals there are overwhelmed. Crematoriums are burning throughout the night, as the dead bodies pile up. I understand that the U.S. has begun sending some supplies to India to help. But the U.S. is also sitting on millions of doses &#8212; doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has not been approved for use in the U.S. Why isn&#8217;t the Biden administration releasing the AstraZeneca stockpile right now to save lives in India, which is a close ally of the United States, in desperate, desperate need?
DUNN: So, to be clear, Jake, there isn&#8217;t some huge warehouse filled with AstraZeneca vaccines that we can just release at a moment&#8217;s notice. The president earlier this week did announce that he is going to use the AstraZeneca vaccines that this country has ordered that have not been cleared, as you pointed out, for use in the United States, but that he is going to share them with the world, so India and other countries as well, because this is &#8212; as he said in his speech, this virus isn&#8217;t going to be kept out by any wall. There&#8217;s no wall high enough to keep the virus out. It&#8217;s a global health emergency. And so the president has said we have enough vaccine in the United States without AstraZeneca to vaccinate everybody who&#8217;s eligible right now. Those are people who are 16 years and older. And if you haven&#8217;t gotten your vaccine, we would urge you to start doing it, because it is the single best way to get back to normal in this country. But in terms of the AstraZeneca, as soon as it is ready to be shared with the world, we plan to share it. The president has said that. We also had our first aid flights to India land there on Friday. They will continue. We are getting them essential products that they need urgently, oxygen, PPE. It&#8217;s a global health crisis.
TAPPER: Yes.
DUNN: And, unfortunately, what is going on in India is something that we have to worry about for the rest of the world as well.
TAPPER: Right. Lastly &#8212; we&#8217;re running out of time, Anita. President Biden said in an interview that schools should probably all be open in the fall. Can you clarify? Is it the Biden administration&#8217;s position that all K-12 schools should be back full-time, in person learning start of next school year? And is the Biden White House willing to push back on any teachers unions or others who stake out any position to the contrary not backed up by science?
DUNN: So, Jake, one of the great accomplishments of this administration and one the president is very proud of is that 80 percent of the teachers and school personnel in this country have now been vaccinated. If you recall, a couple of months ago, we &#8212; the president made the announcement that we were going to have a special supply of vaccine dedicated precisely for this reason. Now, he said probably. He didn&#8217;t say absolutely. But, given the science, if the vaccination program in this country proceeds, if people do go get their vaccines, there &#8212; he does believe that schools should be able to reopen in September, and reopen safely, following the CDC guidelines. But he said probably. He said &#8212; did not say absolutely, because we have all seen this since, unfortunately, January of 2020. It&#8217;s an unpredictable virus.
TAPPER: Yes. Fair enough.
DUNN: It is a virus that has &#8212; it mutates. It&#8217;s &#8212; so, we can&#8217;t look in a crystal ball and say what September looks like. But we do believe that, if people go get their vaccine &#8212; they have doubts about it, they should ask their doctor. They should ask people who&#8217;ve already gotten it.
TAPPER: Yes.
DUNN: They should certainly do their own research. But, if people get their vaccine, if schools follow the CDC guidelines, then, as he said, we probably should be able to have them open.
TAPPER: All right, Anita Dunn, thank you so much for your time today. Appreciate it. Go enjoy this beautiful weather.</blockquote>
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Anita Dunn, senior adviser to President Joe Biden, told CNN during an interview on Sunday that Biden has not committed to reopening schools this fall because the pandemic is &quot;unpredictable.&quot;

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, announced in an interview late last week that he will sign a bill banning biological males from competing in girls sports.
DeSantis made the announcement during a town hall event with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
&#8220;Governor DeSantis, a bill of a similar nature is about to cross your desk,&#8221; Ingraham said. &#8220;Are you going to sign it?&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, yes. We&#8217;re going to protect our girls,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;I have a four-year-old daughter and a one-year-old daughter, and they&#8217;re very athletic. And we want to have opportunities for our girls. They deserve an even playing field. And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing, with what Mississippi did, with what Florida did, and I know what other states are going to do. So, I look forward to being able to sign that into law.&#8221;
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&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1389035017725087744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2021</a></blockquote>
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JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I also hope Congress will get to my desk the Equality Act to protect LGBTQ Americans.
(APPLAUSE)
BIDEN: It will all change under Americans watching at home, especially young people who are so brave, I want you to know your president has your back.
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INGRAHAM: What about the female athletes, though? Equality Act will mean the end of women&#8217;s sports as we know it. Now, it&#8217;s obvious to most Americans that allowing biological men to compete against women is just fundamentally unfair. A recent Rasmussen survey found that 54 percent oppose transgender participation in sports teams, only 32 percent support it.
So it&#8217;s time to find out how the governors with me tonight are fighting back. I&#8217;m once again joined by our red state trailblazers. Governor Reeves, Mississippi became the first start to enact legislation to protect female athletes when you signed it back in March. So we did you think the issue was so important for the people of your state?
REEVES: This is an issue I&#8217;m passionate about. And the reason I&#8217;m passionate about it is because I have a 16-year-old daughter, a 14-year-old daughter, and a nine-year-old daughter. And they play basketball, and they play soccer, and they play every sport they could possibly play. And the reality is, biological males should not be allowed to compete with them for athletic scholarships. They should not be allowed to be able to compete with them for opportunities.
(APPLAUSE)
REEVES: And so, I was so blessed that the Mississippi legislature sent me a bill to ban that in our state, and I was honored to sign it.
INGRAHAM: Governor DeSantis, a bill of a similar nature is about to cross your desk. Are you going to sign it?
GOV. RON DESANTIS, (R) FLORIDA: Oh, yes. We&#8217;re going to protect our girls.
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DESANTIS: I have a four-year-old daughter and a one-year-old daughter, and they&#8217;re very athletic. And we want to have opportunities for our girls. They deserve an even playing field. And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing, with what Mississippi did, with what Florida did, and I know what other states are going to do. So, I look forward to being able to sign that into law.
INGRAHAM: The NCAA put out a statement on transgender athletes. &#8220;Inclusion and fairness can coexist for all student athletes including transgender athletes. We&#8217;re committed to ensuring that NCAA championships are open for all who earn the right to compete in them.&#8221; Governor Reynolds, how is it fair to have biological males compete against women athletes?
GOV. KIM REYNOLDS, (R) IOWA: It&#8217;s not fair.
INGRAHAM: So, what if the NCAA isn&#8217;t so generic with its language and says we&#8217;re going to pull out of your state, we&#8217;re not going to have competition in your state?
REYNOLDS: I&#8217;m going to do what is right for my state. I&#8217;m going to do what&#8217;s right for girls. I&#8217;m a mom of three daughters and a grandmother of three granddaughters who compete. And it&#8217;s the right to do. They should have the same opportunities. And we&#8217;re working on legislation, too. I should have that to my desk by, hopefully the end of this legislative session, and we&#8217;ll be signing that bill.
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INGRAHAM: Governor Abbott, the corporations are lined up on this issue. It reminds me, and we&#8217;re going to get to the voter integrity issue, but they&#8217;ve all lined up on the side of transgender athletes should compete in the sport of their choice with the gender of their choice. What are you going to say to these corporations if they say we&#8217;re pulling out of Texas?
ABBOTT: They&#8217;re tardy to the party. First think, what if they don&#8217;t participate in Florida and Texas. Will they even able to have sports events anymore in the United States? I don&#8217;t think so.
ABBOTT: But for five years the University Interscholastic League in Texas has had a rule in place prohibiting boys from playing girls in girls&#8217; sports. But the Texas legislature is working on a bill to codify that, which I will sign.</blockquote>
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Ron DeSantis To Sign Bill Banning Biological Males From Competing In Girls Sports

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, announced in an interview late last week that he will sign a bill banning biological males from competing in

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Thursday that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is the future of the Republican Party, and if Americans want to see where the GOP is headed then they need to listen to Scott&#8217;s speech last night.
McConnell also took a shot at President Joe Biden, saying that Biden pulled a &#8220;bait-and-switch&#8221; on America and that Bernie Sanders must be happy with Biden&#8217;s agenda.
&#8220;Well, look, we&#8217;re looking to the future, not the past,&#8221; McConnell said. &#8220;And if you want to see the future of the Republican Party, watch Tim Scott&#8217;s response to President Biden last night. He&#8217;s the future. That&#8217;s where we&#8217;re headed. We&#8217;re not preoccupied with the past, but looking forward.&#8221;
&#8220;He laid out what the Republican Party today and tomorrow is going to look like,&#8221; McConnell added. &#8220;He&#8217;s very popular, not only within our party, but among Senate Democrats as well. He&#8217;s brave, courageous, and tells the truth. And when you do that these days, a lot of people come after you. He&#8217;s a courageous leader, the most inspirational leader we have in our party looking forward.&#8221;
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&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1387918551323877377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>MARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: So, as promised, here now exclusively Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Good to have you with us today, Senator. Thank you for being here.
So, that&#8217;s the challenge. I mean, what does your side do specifically to push back on these plans that they hope will appeal to a lot of those blue-collar workers that were Trump Republican voters?
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY): Well, first, the government is not the people. The president got it exactly wrong.
This is a massive engagement &#8212; or recommendation that we engage in higher taxes, more spending, and dramatically more debt. Senator Romney had it exactly right. This is the wrong prescription for America.
We&#8217;re coming out of this pandemic. Growth is picking up dramatically.
MACCALLUM: Yeah.
MCCONNELL: Vaccines are getting in arms. These proposals are wildly out of proportion to what to country needs at this particular juncture.
MACCALLUM: Well, it remains to be seen, politically, if trying to push this through &#8212; someone termed it today trying to get a rhinoceros through a garden hose, very tight, very tight majority for the Democrats.
And this is Senator Manchin from West Virginia talking about these spending plans. Watch this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
QUESTION: Are you concerned about this push for a more expansive government?
SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D-WV): Oh, most certainly, yes, I am.
And &#8212; but I want to see the details, as we talked before. But we can&#8217;t over &#8212; overreach to the point to where we stymie investments, we stymie basically growth for 2022, &#8217;23, &#8217;24 and on.
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MACCALLUM: So, he sounds like he has some doubts about this. How many other Senate Democrats do you think you can peel off from these huge plans, Senator?
MCCONNELL: Yes, look, I think there are a number of Democrats who share the view of Senator Manchin that what&#8217;s being recommended here jeopardizes the future of our entire country, the massive amount of debt to deal with an economy that&#8217;s coming back on its own, getting back where it was.
In February of 2020, we had the best economy we&#8217;d had in 50 years, low unemployment among African Americans, Asian Americans, all Americans. We simply need to let this economy bloom again with the end of the pandemic, which is occurring with the dissemination of vaccine shots into arms all over the country.
MACCALLUM: Do you think that&#8217;s persuasive? I mean, do you think that President Biden ends up with these plans going through? Or how much of these plans do you think are viable for him?
MCCONNELL: Well, procedurally, he will have to have every single Senate Democrat, all 50 of them, in line, and the vice president in the chair. I think they will find that very, very challenging.
MACCALLUM: Interesting.
Last night &#8212; you have talked about the fact that you haven&#8217;t been invited to the White House by the president. You haven&#8217;t had a real meeting, a couple of short phone calls. Last night, he ad-libbed a thank you to you for naming a cancer bill a few years back after his son Beau Biden.
Did you outreach to him today? Is there any change? What was your response to that when you heard that in the hall?
MCCONNELL: Well, I appreciated the compliment. We&#8217;re friendly. We have done deals together in the past.
However, the reason we&#8217;re not talking now is because he&#8217;s not trying to do anything remotely close to moderate. Think of it as the Biden bait-and-switch. He ran as a moderate, but everything he&#8217;s recommended so far has been hard Left.
Bernie Sanders is really happy. He may have lost the nomination, but he won the argument over what today&#8217;s Democratic Party is.
MACCALLUM: Well&#8230;
MCCONNELL: More taxes, more spending, more borrowing.
MACCALLUM: We remember candidate Biden did promise to be the most progressive president in history, and that is what seems to be happening, by his own accord.
I do want to ask you about these comments by President Trump this morning, former President Trump this morning saying that it&#8217;s time for &#8212; he said that you have not done a great job and that it&#8217;s time for new leadership.
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MACCALLUM: What do you say to him today?
MCCONNELL: Well, look, we&#8217;re looking to the future, not the past.
And if you want to see the future of the Republican Party, watch Tim Scott&#8217;s response to President Biden last night. He&#8217;s the future. That&#8217;s where we&#8217;re headed. We&#8217;re not preoccupied with the past, but looking forward.
MACCALLUM: So, you don&#8217;t think that your party listens to what he says about you or about your leadership?
MCCONNELL: What we&#8217;re doing is focusing on the future, not the past. And if you want to see the future, watch Tim Scott&#8217;s great speech last night. He laid out what the Republican Party today and tomorrow is going to look like.
MACCALLUM: All right, I want to ask you something else about that. But I want to play one more thing here from President Trump, because he seems to think that &#8212; that he does have a moment in the future as well. Here&#8217;s what he said.
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DONALD TRUMP, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, 100 percent I&#8217;m thinking about running. And we will, I think, be very successful if &#8212; we were very successful. Look, I ran twice. And the second time, I got 12 million more votes in the first time.
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MACCALLUM: So, you said that, if he got the nomination, you would stand by him. Do you still say that today?
MCCONNELL: Well, I&#8217;m going to support the nominee of the Republican Party.
I do predict, however, there&#8217;s going to be a robust competition for the nomination. I have got three or four members of the Senate who are going to be running for president in 2024. Once that all sorts itself out, as the Republican leader of the Senate, obviously, I will be supporting the Republican nominee for president in 2024.
MACCALLUM: And do you think that person will have to have former President Trump&#8217;s backing?
MCCONNELL: He will have to win the nomination. And I think, once the nomination is secured, the party will come together and give it our best shot in 2024.
MACCALLUM: Yes, what did you think &#8212; I&#8217;m sorry to jump &#8212; to interrupt.
What did you think about the fact that Tim Scott &#8212; and we&#8217;re going to talk about this later in the program. You know, he got trolled all over social media. They called him sort of racist names. I mean, it&#8217;s quite shocking.
Do you think that it&#8217;s possible for someone like him to gain acceptance on both sides of the aisle? Or do you think that some on the other side of the aisle feel threatened by his strength?
MCCONNELL: Look, he&#8217;s very popular, not only within our party, but among Senate Democrats as well.
He&#8217;s brave, courageous, and tells the truth. And when you do that these days, a lot of people come after you. He&#8217;s a courageous leader, the most inspirational leader we have in our party looking forward.
MACCALLUM: Good to speak with you today, sir.
Thank you very much for coming in&#8230;
MCCONNELL: OK.
MACCALLUM: &#8230; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.</blockquote>
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Thursday that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is the future of the Republican Party, and if Americans want to

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Deon Joseph, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/well-known-police-officer-deon-joseph-writes-letter-to-lebron-requests-meeting-following-attack-on-cop">well-known</a> Los Angeles Police Department officer, explained during an interview on Wednesday why he wrote a letter reaching out to NBA star LeBron James after James targeted a police officer on social media, saying he hopes to change James&#8217; mind about the police because continuing to demonize law enforcement ends up hurting minority communities over time.
Joseph said that he used to view the police the same way that James did because of the music that he listened to, an activist group he joined when he was young, and prior negative encounters that he had with law enforcement.
&#8220;You know, I&#8217;m tired of vitriol. I&#8217;m tired of the demagoguery against police officers and it&#8217;s so broad and it&#8217;s also dangerous because as that&#8217;s happening, we have political figures who are buying off on it,&#8221; Joseph said. &#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t mind Joe on the corner, on social media all day watching collages of cop hate videos is upset. But when we start hearing our politicians espousing the same rhetoric, that&#8217;s when it&#8217;s time to be concerned.&#8221;
&#8220;And what they end up doing is tire tying our hands over time, and actually hurting people of color in some of the most marginalized communities that we we signed up to serve and protect as well,&#8221; he added.
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<blockquote>STEVE DOOCY, FOX NEWS HOST:  All right. A Los Angeles law enforcement consultant is calling foul on LeBron James&#8217; now-deleted tweet the targeted an Ohio police officer involved in a deadly shooting. In an open letter to LeBron James, Deon Joseph invites him to sit down and have a conversation with him on the matter, writing, &#8216;the tweet itself was the embodiment of hatred rooted in a lack of understanding of the danger of the situation. The offer is on the table LeBron, no cameras, no fanfare, just two men who care talking. This division and hatred must stop.&#8217; LeBron has yet to respond. But the ball is now in his court. And Deon Joseph, who wrote that open letter to LeBron James joins us live right now. Deon, good morning to you.
DEON JOSEPH, POLICE OFFICER:  Good morning. How are you?
DOOCY: I&#8217;m great. Thank you very much. Why did you write this?
JOSEPH:  Well, I wrote it for several reasons. But one of the reasons is, I felt really horrible for that officer &#8230; in Ohio who had to make a really tough decision, especially with a young lady who was so young. And I said to myself, that actually could have been me four times in my career, I was almost in a deadly shooting, like literally this close. And I remember one time, it was a young man who was about 19 years old, I&#8217;m off duty. And I&#8217;m seeing people run away from this guy screaming that he had a gun, and I was this close to shooting that man. And I thought, if I would have shot that young man, everything that I&#8217;ve done in my career, to try to help the homeless, to try to put them into housing, to try to create an environment conducive to change, to bring awareness to help women in Skid Row, that would have been thrown out the window because someone like him who has so much power, so much prestige and influence, could easily turn 50 million human beings against this hard working blue collar guy who&#8217;s going to end up being the most hated man in America. So, that&#8217;s one good reason why I really wanted to step up and to start speaking up for the vast majority of decent offices just doing a tough job.
DOOCY: Sure and when you look at what we know, so far, regarding that incident, in Columbus, Ohio, which prompted LeBron James to put up that tweet that got you going, and inviting him to sit down with [you], had you been that police officer in the same situation, what would you have done?
JOSEPH: I probably would have done the same thing. My goal is to save lives. Like I said, every morning, I pray that I never, ever, have to take a life. And once again, I feel so sorry for the family of that young lady. But unfortunately, the officer had to try to save a life in a split second &#8230; and people don&#8217;t understand how fast these things happen. They really have to understand how fast they happen.
DOOCY: You told one of the foxnews.com people you said, I was LeBron James before I became a police officer. What does that mean?
JOSEPH: &#8230; I was a young, African American male in society. And when I came up, I came up in the late 80s and 90s and early 90s. So that was a very violent and turbulent time. But also, it was a time of anti-police sentiment where, you know, we had the Rodney King incident &#8230; and all these other things. And all my family and friends, we kind of had to share this monolithic view that all police were inherently our enemy. They were our natural enemy. I mean, I joined the activist group in high school that all we talked about was how bad the police were and this and that, and, you know, and also, I was just bombarded at the time with Hollywood movies that depict the cops in a negative light. My favorite rap groups were NWA, Public Enemy, &#8230; they were guiding me. It&#8217;s almost like a steady indoctrination, to the thought that all police are bad enough. And also I had a couple of negative encounters with police that didn&#8217;t sit well and help me made me forget about the good contacts, because you never remember the good, you always remember the trauma. And my mind changed when I had no choice but to be a police officer. I did not want to be a cop. But once I stepped across that line, I discovered that the vast majority of police officers are just hard working decent human beings from all walks of life. And that 90% of what&#8217;s said about police officers is just not true. We&#8217;re not perfect. Yes, there&#8217;s a negative exception. But there&#8217;s an honorable rule to them that we need to talk about them as well, to get balance.
DOOCY: And Deon, that exactly is why you want LeBron James, to reach out to you. You guys just sit down, no cameras, no nothing, just so that you can explain to him what goes on in your squad car and what the average police officer faces in a day because as you pointed out, there have been times in your career where you have to make a split second decision that could impact the rest of your life.
JOSEPH:  Absolutely. Absolutely. That&#8217;s all I want is to humanize each other. You know, I&#8217;m tired of vitriol. I&#8217;m tired of the demagoguery against police officers and it&#8217;s so broad and it&#8217;s also dangerous because as that&#8217;s happening, we have political figures who are buying off on it. You know, I don&#8217;t mind Joe on the corner, on social media all day watching collages of cop hate videos is upset. But when we start hearing our politicians espousing the same rhetoric, that&#8217;s when it&#8217;s time to be concerned. And what they end up doing is tire tying our hands over time, and actually hurting people of color in some of the most marginalized communities that we we signed up to serve and protect as well.
DOOCY: Sure, and Deon, it&#8217;s not just politicians. I&#8217;ve read reports about the Oscar cast. I didn&#8217;t watch the Oscars. But apparently there were a number of people who were talking about police and it was not favorable.
JOSEPH: Yes, I heard that too. And it was disheartening, because prior to this new wave of anti police mentality, a lot of these celebrities have relationships with police officers, they knew officers, they had police officers that are security and body guards, and we would stand by and protect them at their events. And it was just unfortunate that these once again, these people who have influence, well intended, but not informed, you know, and when you don&#8217;t talk to the other side, you know, and you buy into a one sided narrative about any group, that can be dangerous, you can end up putting not just cops in danger, but also the public that we&#8217;re trying to help as well.
DOOCY: Deon, I think it would be great if LeBron James took you up on your offer. And not only just sit, sit down and talk about your job and what people in uniform face, but it would be great if you could take him on a ride around, a ride along, so he could see what you do. He could interface with the people you see every day, what&#8217;s the one thing he would see that he does not know right now?
JOSEPH: Well, I think he would see the relationships that we do have, you know, if you step away from the TV set, if you step away from your smart device, you&#8217;ll see that relationship I have with the community I serve, they&#8217;re like my family, you know. I&#8217;m in a pandemic, and I have to stop some homeless person from trying to kiss me on the cheek now because, you know, because I don&#8217;t want the coronavirus again. But, uh, but you know, to see that, you know, we do care about the people we serve, sometimes we don&#8217;t have time to show it. Look, when crime is high, like it&#8217;s getting right now, a police officer only has time to show you what he does. But when we&#8217;re able to work together with the community and build relationships and drive crime down, we can show who we are. Now I&#8217;ve been able to master the art of both. But I would like to work with someone like LeBron, who has some influence, who can influence all communities together, meet with police, again, to create this synergy where, you know, they understand the job we have. And also they can hear from us that we do care about them and want to make things better. We may not always agree, but there&#8217;s no hatred in our hearts towards any sector of the community. You know, it&#8217;s just some communities may be worse than others that would need our attention. But their skin is not their sin, disparity doesn&#8217;t always equal bias. You know, sometimes it&#8217;s just the data that drives us to the community. When you have 20 people getting stabbed on one block, we have to be there. And if we&#8217;re not people die.</blockquote>
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Police Officer Rips LeBron: ‘Demagoguery Against Police Officers’ Ends Up Hurting Minorities In Long Run

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Deon Joseph, a well-known Los Angeles Police Department officer, explained during an interview on Wednesday why he wrote a letter reaching out to NBA star

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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) slammed President Joe Biden on Wednesday night as he delivered the Republican Party&#8217;s rebuttal speech to the speech that Biden gave just moments prior that was panned by critics as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-for-divisive-and-radical-speech-that-may-cause-bloodbath-for-democrats-in-2022">divisive and extreme</a>.
&#8220;We just heard President Biden’s first address to Congress. Our president seems like a good man,&#8221; Scott began. &#8220;His speech was full of good words. But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. He promised to unite a nation. To lower the temperature. To govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted. That was the pitch. You just heard it again. But our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes. We need policies and progress that bring us closer together.&#8221;
Scott highlighted how during the first three months of Biden&#8217;s presidency, he and the Democrats &#8220;are pulling us further apart.&#8221;
Scott then proceeded to talk about the challenging background that he came from and how faith and conservative principles played a big role in getting his life on track, and how those things are under attack now.
&#8220;This past year, I’ve watched COVID attack every rung of the ladder that helped me up,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;So many families have lost parents and grandparents too early. So many small businesses have gone under. Becoming a Christian transformed my life — but for months, too many churches were shut down. Most of all, I am saddened that millions of kids have lost a year of learning when they could not afford to lose a single day.&#8221;
&#8220;Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future,&#8221; Scott continued. &#8220;Our public schools should have reopened months ago. Other countries’ did. Private and religious schools did. Science has shown for months that schools are safe. But too often, powerful grown-ups set science aside. And kids like me were left behind. The clearest case for school choice in our lifetimes …”
Scott highlighted how there was more bipartisan COVID-19 work that happened under the leadership of former President Donald Trump, a Republican, than under Biden, a Democrat.
Scott hammered Biden for dividing instead of uniting, and on numerous policy issues, including infrastructure, Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Family Plan,&#8221; and other extreme proposals.
WATCH:
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>Good evening. I’m Senator Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina. We just heard President Biden’s first address to Congress. Our President seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words. But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership.
He promised to unite a nation. To lower the temperature. To govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted. That was the pitch. You just heard it again. But our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes. We need policies and progress that bring us closer together.
But three months in, the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further apart. I won’t waste your time with finger-pointing or partisan bickering. You can get that on T.V. any time you want.
I want to have an honest conversation about common sense and common ground. About this feeling that our nation is sliding off its shared foundation and how we move forward together.
Growing up, I never dreamed I’d be standing here tonight. When I was a kid, my parents divorced. My mother, my brother, and I moved in with my grandparents. Three of us, sharing one bedroom. I was disillusioned and angry, and I nearly failed out of school. But I was blessed.
First, with a praying momma … I was also blessed by a Chick-Fil-A operator, John Moniz. And finally, with a string of opportunities that are only possible here in America. This past year, I’ve watched COVID attack every rung of the ladder that helped me up.
So many families have lost parents and grandparents too early. So many small businesses have gone under. Becoming a Christian transformed my life — but for months, too many churches were shut down. Most of all, I am saddened that millions of kids have lost a year of learning when they could not afford to lose a single day.
Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future. Our public schools should have reopened months ago. Other countries’ did. Private and religious schools did. Science has shown for months that schools are safe. But too often, powerful grown-ups set science aside. And kids like me were left behind. The clearest case for school choice in our lifetimes&#8230;
Last year, under Republican leadership, we passed five bipartisan COVID packages. Congress supported our schools, our hospitals, saved our economy, and funded Operation Warp Speed, delivering vaccines in record time. All five bills got 90 … votes in the Senate. Common sense found common ground.
In February, Republicans told President Biden we wanted to keep working together to finish this fight, but Democrats wanted to go it alone. They spent almost $2 trillion on a partisan bill that the White House bragged was the most liberal bill in American history! Only 1% went to vaccinations. No requirement to re-open schools promptly. COVID brought Congress together five times. This Administration pushed us apart.
Another issue that should unite us is infrastructure. Republicans support everything you think of when you think of “infrastructure.” Roads, bridges, ports, airports, waterways, high-speed broadband — we’re in for all of that. But again, Democrats want a partisan wish list. They won’t even build bridges to build bridges!
Less than 6% of the president’s plan goes to roads and bridges. It’s a liberal wish-list of Big Government waste, plus the biggest job-killing tax hikes in a generation. Experts say, when all is said and done, it would lower wages of the average American worker and shrink our economy.
Tonight we also heard about a so-called “Family Plan.” Even more taxing, even more spending, to put Washington even more in the middle of your life — from the cradle to college. The beauty of the American Dream is that families get to define it for themselves.
We should be expanding opportunities and options for all families — not throwing money at certain issues because Democrats think they know best.
“Infrastructure” spending that shrinks our economy is not common sense. Weakening our southern borders and creating a crisis is not compassionate. The president is abandoning principles he held for decades. Now, he says your tax dollars should fund abortions. He’s laying groundwork to pack the Supreme Court! This is not common ground.
Nowhere do we need common ground more desperately than in our discussions of race. I have experienced the pain of discrimination. I know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason; to be followed around a store while I’m shopping.
I remember, every morning, at the kitchen table, my grandfather would open the newspaper and read it, I thought. Later, I realized he had never learned to read it. He just wanted to set the right example. I’ve also experienced a different kind of intolerance. I get called “Uncle Tom” and the N-word — by “progressives.” By liberals.
Just last week, a national newspaper suggested my family’s poverty was actually privilege because a relative owned land generations before my time. Believe me, I know first hand our healing is not finished. In 2015, after the shooting of Walter Scott, I wrote a bill to fund body cameras. 
Last year, after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, I built an even bigger police reform proposal. But my Democratic colleagues blocked it! I extended an olive branch. I offered them amendments. But Democrats used the filibuster to block the debate from even happening.
My friends across the aisle seemed to want the issue more than they wanted a solution. But I’m still working. I’m hopeful that this will be different.
When America comes together, we’ve made tremendous progress. But powerful forces want to pull us apart. A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic — and if they looked a certain way, they were inferior.
Today, kids are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again — and if they look a certain way, they’re an oppressor. From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven’t made any progress at all, by doubling down on the divisions we’ve worked so hard to heal.
You know this stuff is wrong. Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country. It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.
I’m an African American who has voted in the South my entire life. I take voting rights personally. Republicans support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat. And so do the voters! Big majorities of Americans support early voting, and big majorities support Voter I.D. — including African Americans and Hispanics. Common sense makes common ground.
But today, this conversation has collapsed. The state of Georgia passed a law that expands early voting; preserves no-excuse mail-in voting; and, despite what the president claimed, did not reduce Election Day hours. If you actually read this law, it’s mainstream! It will be easier to vote early in Georgia than in Democrat-run New York.
But the Left doesn’t want you to know that. They want people virtue-signaling by yelling about a law they haven’t even read! Fact-checkers have called out the White House for misstatements. The president absurdly claims this is worse than Jim Crow.
What is going on here? I’ll tell you. A Washington power grab. This misplaced outrage is supposed to justify Democrats’ new sweeping bill that would take over elections for all 50 states; it would send public funds to political campaigns you disagree with, and make the bipartisan Federal Elections Commission partisan!
This is not about civil rights, or our racial past. It’s about rigging elections in the future. And, no — the same filibuster that President Obama and President Biden praised when they were senators, the same filibuster that the Democrats used to kill my police reform bill last year, has not suddenly become a racist relic just because the shoe is now on the other foot!
Race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants. It’s far too important.
This should be a joyful springtime for our nation. This administration inherited a tide that had already turned. The coronavirus is on the run! Thanks to Operation Warp Speed and the Trump Administration, our country is flooded with safe and effective vaccines.
Thanks to our bipartisan work last year, job openings are rebounding. So why do we feel so divided, anxious? A nation with so much cause for hope should not feel so heavy-laden. A president who promised to bring us together should not push agendas that tear us apart.
The American family deserves better. And we know what better looks like!
Just before COVID, we had the most inclusive economy in my lifetime.
The lowest unemployment rates ever recorded for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. And a 70-year low, nearly, for women.
Wages were growing faster at the bottom than at the top…
That happened because Republicans focused on expanding opportunity for all Americans…
We passed Opportunity Zones, criminal justice reform, and permanent funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities for the first time ever.
We fought the drug epidemic, rebuilt our military, and cut taxes for working families and single moms like the one that raised me.
Our best future won’t come from Washington schemes or socialist dreams. It will come from you — the American people.
Black, Hispanic, white, and Asian. Republican and Democrat. Brave police officers and black neighborhoods.
We are not adversaries. We are family!
We are all in this together. And we get to live in the greatest country on Earth.
The country where my grandfather, in his 94 years, saw his family go from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.
So I am more than hopeful — I am confident — that our finest hour is yet to come.
Original sin is never the end of the story. Not in our souls, and not for our nation. The real story is always redemption.
I am standing here because my mom has prayed me through some really tough times.
I believe our nation has succeeded the same way:
Because generations of Americans, in their own ways, have asked for grace, and God has supplied it.
So I will close with a word from a worship song that really helped me through this past year. The music is new, but the words draw from Scripture.
[May] the Lord bless you and keep you, 
Make His face shine upon you 
And be gracious to you…
May His presence go before you, 
And behind you, and beside you…
In your weeping and your rejoicing, 
He is [with] you&#8230;
May His favor be upon [our nation] for a thousand generations 
And your family&#8230; and your children… 
And their children.
Good night, and God bless.</blockquote>
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President Biden Delivers First Address To Joint Session Of Congress

Tim Scott Shreds Joe Biden In Rebuttal Speech: Biden Is Tearing Us Apart After Promising To Unite Nation

State of the Union

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) slammed President Joe Biden on Wednesday night as he delivered the Republican Party&#039;s rebuttal speech to the speech that Biden gave

https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/tim-scott-shreds-joe-biden-in-rebuttal-speech-biden-is-tearing-us-apart-after-promising-to-unite-nation/

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was caught raging against other nations during a profane rant that was leaked to the media.
The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/palestinian-president-unleashes-profane-rant-against-rest-of-the-world/">reported</a> that the rant was fueling questions about the 85-year-old&#8217;s health with critics speculating that he is in poor mental and physical health.
&#8220;When asked by an unidentified attendee at the Fatah political party&#8217;s April 19 meeting what his message to China is on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, Abbas went ballistic,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;&#8216;F**k the c**t of China with a shoe!&#8217; Abbas screamed, according to an independent Arabic translation of his remarks provided to The Washington Free Beacon. &#8216;That good for you?'&#8221;
Moments later, Abbas allegedly yelled, &#8220;And Russia, America, and all the Arabs. What&#8217;s wrong with you? All of you go to hell!&#8221;
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&mdash; Fadi Elsalameen فادي السلامين (@Elsalameen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Elsalameen/status/1385246464629170181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The leak comes as roughly the same time that The New York Times published a report documenting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leaked-audio-of-irans-foreign-minister-john-kerry-told-us-israel-behind-200-attacks">leaked</a> remarks from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Key takeaways from the leaked audio:
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<li>Former Secretary of State John Kerry informed him that Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria at least 200 times, to his astonishment, Mr. Zarif said.</li>
<li>Zarif said the Revolutionary Guards Corps call the shots, overruling many government decisions and ignoring advice.</li>
<li>[Zarif] also says that by assassinating [Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Guards’ elite Quds Force] in Iraq, the United States delivered a major blow to Iran, more damaging than if it had wiped out an entire city in an attack.</li>
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The Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-admin-repeatedly-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-iranian-official-revealing-john-kerry-sold-out-israel">repeatedly</a> refused to address the report, but Kerry later did and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-kerry-denies-allegations-he-ratted-on-israel-to-iran-never-happened">denied</a> it.
The report sparked calls for an investigation into Kerry and calls for him to immediately resign from his position, including:
<ul>
<li>Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-criminal-act-calls-grow-for-kerry-to-resign-following-explosive-report-gop-demands-investigations">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX): “If this tape is verified, it would signal catastrophic and disqualifying recklessness by Envoy Kerry to Foreign Minister Zarif that endangered the safety of Americans and our allies. And it would be consistent with his long pattern of empowering Iran’s regime. Kerry poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the Ayatollah’s terrorist bank accounts, was a close confidant with Zarif during the Obama administration, and was caught repeatedly meeting with him during the Trump administration (notwithstanding the Logan Act) — and has never publicly accounted for what they discussed.”</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pompeo-on-kerry-report-while-i-was-briefing-president-trump-kerry-was-briefing-zarif">Mike Pompeo</a>, former Secretary of State and CIA Director: &#8220;It looks like from this reporting, that it’s confirmed what we can already believe, which was that while I was briefing President Trump, Kerry was briefing Zarif on intelligence that related to Israeli operations, I hope that’s not true. John Kerry needs to come forward, Secretary Kerry needs to speak to the American people and explain to them why he was meeting with Zarif. We know he did that, he’s admitted as much, what he was talking about. We believe that he was absolutely telling the Iranians hang on, this pressure campaign, the power that’s being exerted by America against you, it’ll be over, we’ll win this election. It’ll just be four years, you can hang in there. Don’t, don’t for a minute negotiate with the Trump team. And so Secretary Kerry’s got an awful lot of explaining to do. There’s no reason to think that these remarks that Zarif made,  according to The New York Times, they were made in private, he didn’t think they were going to come out, there’s no reason to think that he wasn’t telling you that he was truly surprised that he did not know about these Israeli operations, until Secretary Kerry told him about them.&#8221;</li>
<li>Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1386718357903364097">Elise Stafanik</a> (R-NY): “his is a criminal act and John Kerry must be immediately investigated and PROSECUTED. President Biden must immediately remove John Kerry from any government or advisory position.”</li>
<li>Former U.N. Ambassador <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1386722467062816769">Nikki Haley</a>: “This is disgusting on many levels. Biden and Kerry have to answer for why Kerry would be tipping off Iran, the number one sponsor of terror, while stabbing one of our greatest partners, Israel, in the back.”</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1386664340510674951">Donald Trump Jr.</a>: “Imagine for a second a Trump official sitting on the NSC, like Kerry does, told Iran details about Israeli strikes? I believe the media would be screaming TREASON and they wouldn’t be too far off, but of course they’ll say and do nothing because they’re useless propagandists.”</li>
<li>Rep. <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/pompeo-pushes-investigation-into-kerry-for-leaking-secrets-to-iran/">Jim Banks</a> (R-IN): “John Kerry must resign immediately. The investigation should be retrospective.”</li>
<li>Sen. <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/pompeo-pushes-investigation-into-kerry-for-leaking-secrets-to-iran/">Tom Cotton</a> (R-AR): “These reports are concerning—I’d like the opportunity to ask Secretary Kerry about this in a closed hearing.”</li>
<li>Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1386857052388069380">Marsha Blackburn</a> (R-TN): “If intel leak rumors are true, John Kerry should seriously consider resignation.”</li>
<li>Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Rick Scott (R-FL) <a href="https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1386786319242833926">both</a> called for Kerry to resign.</li>
</ul>
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Vice President of the United States Joe Biden in West Bank

Palestinian President Rages: ‘F**k The C**t Of China With A Shoe!’ Russia, America, Arabs ‘Go To Hell’

Mahmoud Abbas

Palestinians

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was caught raging against other nations during a profane rant that was leaked to the media.

https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/palestinian-president-rages-fk-the-ct-of-china-with-a-shoe-russia-america-arabs-go-to-hell/

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Dr. Leana Wen, a CNN medical analyst and the former head of Planned Parenthood, slammed President Joe Biden during an interview this week, saying that he is moving too slowly in lifting pandemic restrictions, his messaging is not effective, and the public health guidance is &#8220;disconnected from reality.&#8221;
&#8220;Dr. Wen, so you&#8217;ve been critical of the administration over not being aggressive enough in the efforts to reopen schools,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper said. &#8220;As we wait for these guidelines tomorrow regarding mask use for vaccine people, do you feel the same way here that the government is moving too slow on these guidelines?&#8221;
&#8220;I do, Anderson,&#8221; she responded. &#8220;I understand that the Biden team wants to be cautious. But caution comes at a price. And that price is that people are saying, well, what&#8217;s the point of getting vaccinated? If not that much changes for me?&#8221;
&#8220;I think what the Biden administration has been doing is to say, here&#8217;s what we as a society should do, as then once we reach a certain level of vaccination and the society, once the infection level decreases, will lift restrictions for everyone. But I think they&#8217;re just counting that many Americans want to know what&#8217;s in it for me, they don&#8217;t want to wait until everyone gets to some elusive herd immunity,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And I think it&#8217;ll be a lot more effective if we same, once you are fully vaccinated, that&#8217;s the end of the road for you. And so, at that point, you&#8217;re able to take off your mask outside, you&#8217;re able to go about enjoying many aspects of pre pandemic life. I think that is going to be key to overcoming vaccine hesitancy.&#8221;
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Here’s what I hope the Biden team will announce today: They need to give much more latitude to what fully vaccinated people can do. I understand the need for caution, but caution comes at a price. We need to clearly tell Americans all the benefits that come with being vaccinated. <a href="https://t.co/T0En8edGZC">pic.twitter.com/T0En8edGZC</a>
&mdash; Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1387065593858334729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Wen said that she thinks that outdoor mask mandates need to be eliminated regardless of whether or not people have been vaccinated.
&#8220;I think the key at this point, Anderson, is that we have to think about reducing risk, not eliminating risk, because we&#8217;re just not going to be able to live like that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We are seeing major portions of this country who are not yet vaccinated, who are already returning to doing everything they&#8217;re doing pre pandemic, because our guidance, the public health guidance is so disconnected from their everyday reality.&#8221;
&#8220;Part of public health is understanding where people are meeting them there,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I think we can tell people, here are all these activities that once were high risk, get vaccinated, they are now lower risk. But once they get vaccinated, go and do things. We encourage you to do things like travel, we want you to do it safely. But please go see your friends and family. I think that kind of message will have a lot more resonance, than here are all the things you can&#8217;t do, even if you&#8217;re fully vaccinated.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Public health guidance needs to meet people where they are. If our guidance is so disconnected from reality, it won’t be followed or trusted. We need to help people move towards normalcy—not aiming for zero risk, but reducing risk, through vaccination <a href="https://t.co/ZSUIjI2KNO">https://t.co/ZSUIjI2KNO</a> <a href="https://t.co/sO4RdZcOyu">pic.twitter.com/sO4RdZcOyu</a>
&mdash; Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1386856271752667139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: Joining us with her perspective is Dr. Leana Wen, CNN medical analyst, former Health Commissioner from Baltimore and author of the upcoming book, &#8216;Lifelines, A Doctor&#8217;s Journey in the Fight for Public Health.&#8217;
Dr. Wen, so you&#8217;ve been critical of the ministration over not being aggressive enough in the efforts to reopen schools. As we wait for these guidelines tomorrow regarding mask use for vaccine people. Do you feel the same way here that the government is moving too slow on these guidelines?
LEANA WEN, CNN MEDICAL ANALYST: I do Anderson. I understand that the Biden team wants to be cautious. But caution comes at a price. And that price is that people are saying, well, what&#8217;s the point of getting vaccinated? If not that much changes for me?
I think what the Biden administration has been doing is to say, here&#8217;s what we as a society should do, as then once we reach a certain level of vaccination and the society, once the infection level decreases, will lift restrictions for everyone. But I think they&#8217;re discounting that many Americans want to know what&#8217;s in it for me, they don&#8217;t want to wait until everyone gets to some elusive herd immunity.
And I think it&#8217;ll be a lot more effective if we say, once you are fully vaccinated, that&#8217;s the end of the road for you. And so, at that point, you&#8217;re able to take off your mask outside, you&#8217;re able to go about enjoying many aspects of pre pandemic life. I think that is going to be key to overcoming vaccine hesitancy.
COOPER: The problem with that, though, is there&#8217;s plenty of people who aren&#8217;t wearing masks anyway who haven&#8217;t been vaccinated. So is that a risk? I mean, if a lot of unvacc &#8212; if a lot of vaccinated people are walking around without mask, or more people just going to start taking off their mask, even whether or not they&#8217;ve been vaccinate. It&#8217;s not like anybody&#8217;s checking.
WEN: Yes, I mean, I think frankly, outdoor mask mandates should just go regardless of whether you&#8217;re vaccinated. There are a lot of locales and states that still have blanket masked mandates. So even if you live in a suburban area, or rural area where you don&#8217;t see that many people, there&#8217;s still mask mandates in place, that does not make any sense.
So I actually think outdoor mask mandates can go. But I also think that we can do a lot more with specifically incentivizing vaccination, including allowing businesses to come back at full capacity if they&#8217;re checking for proof of vaccination.
COOPER: So, I mean, is there &#8212; I mean, it&#8217;s interesting to me that you say if wearing a mask outdoors, that there&#8217;s not much point I mean, that&#8217;s essentially what you&#8217;re saying is that I mean, what about being close to somebody, you know, walking down the street, isn&#8217;t that a risk if they&#8217;re &#8212; they haven&#8217;t been vaccinated?
And even if you&#8217;ve been vaccinated, I mean, is it what&#8217;s the percentage of people who are vaccinated who may get it, but just get a really mild case, but even now, mild cases, aren&#8217;t you seeing that down the road, they can have other effects?
WEN: I think the key at this point, Anderson, is that we have to think about reducing risk, not eliminating risk, because we&#8217;re just not going to be able to live like that. We are seeing major portions of this country who are not yet vaccinated, who are already returning to doing everything they&#8217;re doing pre pandemic, because our guidance, the public health guidance is so disconnected from their everyday reality.
Part of public health is understanding where people are and meeting them there. I think we can tell people, here are all these activities that once were high risk, get vaccinated, they are now lower risk. But once they get vaccinated, go and do things. We encourage you to do things like travel, we want you to do it safely. But please go see your friends and family. I think that kind of message will have a lot more resonance, than here are all the things you can&#8217;t do, even if you&#8217;re fully vaccinated.
COOPER: The pause was listed on the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine on Friday, you were a part of the trial received the placebo but then chose to receive the vaccine before the risk of these rare but serious blood clots was known. Would you still receive the J&amp;J vaccine? And what are you advising your female patients to do?
WEN: I mean, I would say that the J&amp;J vaccine is still a very good vaccine that for a lot of people getting one dose, one shot going to the appointment once is really important. So if that&#8217;s really important to them, go ahead and do that.
But now we also know that there is this rare but very serious clotting disorder, a very serious clotting disorder that has children &#8212; I mean three people have died because of this, seven remain in the hospital for an intensive care. And the number the people who are primarily affected are young women, women under the age of 15.
And so, I would say to these individuals, and if I had a choice, this is what I would have done, I would have taken one of the other vaccines, the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, because those vaccines don&#8217;t have this risk that are still very effective.
We&#8217;re in a very different point at the pandemic than we were a month ago or two months ago, when we said to people, take whatever vaccine you have access to first. Now we have enough supply and we also have more information about the possible risk, the very small risk, but in this very particular population of women under 50. So I would say that those women take Pfizer or Moderna first, if you don&#8217;t want to, for whatever reason, then get Johnson &amp; Johnson it&#8217;s still a very good vaccine.
COOPER: Dr. Wen, appreciate it. Thanks.</blockquote>
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed former Secretary of State John Kerry during an interview on Tuesday night over a report from The New York Times that alleged Kerry told Iran&#8217;s foreign minister that Israel was behind hundreds of attacks on Iranian assets inside Syria.
&#8220;It looks like from this reporting, that it&#8217;s confirmed what we can already believe, which was that while I was briefing President Trump, Kerry was briefing Zarif on intelligence that related to Israeli operations, I hope that&#8217;s not true,&#8221; Pompeo told Fox News host Sean Hannity. &#8220;John Kerry needs to come forward. Secretary Kerry needs to speak to the American people and explain to them why he was meeting with Zarif. We know he did that, he&#8217;s admitted as much, what he was talking about. We believe that he was absolutely telling the Iranians, &#8216;Hang on, this pressure campaign, the power that&#8217;s being exerted by America against you, it&#8217;ll be over, we&#8217;ll win this election. It&#8217;ll just be four years, you can hang in there. Don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t for a minute negotiate with the Trump team.'&#8221;
Pompeo also addressed recent actions by the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps, which has been harassing U.S. Navy vessels, saying that the Trump administration solved this problem by telling the Navy that they had permission to &#8220;blow [the Iranians] out of the water.&#8221;
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<blockquote>SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, is Joe Biden up to the task? Here with reaction, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. I look at this, did John Kerry in the Trump years, Mr. Secretary, did he conduct covert foreign policy negotiations? The very thing that we were lectured General Flynn did with his soon to be counterpart when he was going to be National Security Adviser with the Iranians. And do you believe that Muhammad Zarif is correct in what he&#8217;s saying? Is that a possibility? And if it is, what would that mean to you? 
MIKE POMPEO, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE AND CIA DIRECTOR: Well Sean, thanks for having me on. It looks like from this reporting, that it&#8217;s confirmed what we can already believe, which was that while I was briefing President Trump, Kerry was briefing Zarif on intelligence that related to Israeli operations, I hope that&#8217;s not true. John Kerry needs to come forward, Secretary Kerry needs to speak to the American people and explain to them why he was meeting with Zarif. We know he did that, he&#8217;s admitted as much, what he was talking about. We believe that he was absolutely telling the Iranians hang on, this pressure campaign, the power that&#8217;s being exerted by America against you, it&#8217;ll be over, we&#8217;ll win this election. It&#8217;ll just be four years, you can hang in there. Don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t for a minute negotiate with the Trump team. And so Secretary Kerry&#8217;s got an awful lot of explaining to do. There&#8217;s no reason to think that these remarks that Zarif made,  according to The New York Times, they were made in private, he didn&#8217;t think they were going to come out, there&#8217;s no reason to think that he wasn&#8217;t telling you that he was truly surprised that he did not know about these Israeli operations, until Secretary Kerry told him about them.
HANNITY: Do you have faith, trust, confidence that Joe Biden will be able to handle the Iranians? Now, he wants to get back in the Iranian deal, well, now we have the U.S. Navy being tested right now at this hour. My question to you is, what is the proper response?
POMPEO: Sean, I&#8217;ll tell you what President Trump and our team did. We had the same issue. They were driving IRGC, the Expeditionary Forces, the Iranians were driving IRGC Coast Guard cutters close to our ships. President Trump made clear to our naval officers and our sailors you have every right to respond, you have every right to blow them out of the water. And when we did that, and we communicated that to the Iranians, that activity ceased. We need to make sure that our sailors have the ability to defend themselves. You know, Sean, people may have forgotten. But when Secretary Kerry was in office last time, when he was the secretary of state, the Iranians not only put cutters around our ships, but they seized our sailors, you remember those pictures? They were sitting on the pier, they were kneeling down. They were being held by the Iranians and only an apology from Secretary Kerry was able to get them back. That wouldn&#8217;t have happened on our watch. It didn&#8217;t happen on our watch.
HANNITY: Last question. If the Iranians, if we go back into this deal, you saw the last deal. Hundreds of, you know, all the millions of dollars, billion dollars, given to the Iranian mullahs, we had no anywhere, any place, anytime inspections. What are we get to get an exchange for this deal? And do you see anything? And isn&#8217;t there a real reason that the Israelis, the U.S., the Egyptians, Jordanians, the Saudis have now united against the Iranian hegemony? What part of this does Joe Biden, John Kerry, Kamala Harris not get?
POMPEO: You know, we isolated the Iranians Sean like they&#8217;d never been isolated before. You name those Arab states, add the Emirates as well, they all understand that this deal puts them at risk and our Israeli friends, the Jewish homeland is under threat, if we give the Iranians this money again, it reduces American security as well. I do not for the life of me understand why they would give the Iranians something in exchange for almost nothing, just for this thing that appears to be an article of faith for them to go back into this deal, to say they did it this, this crown jewel of the Kerry Secretary of State time, it would be a big mistake. And it puts Americans at risk.</blockquote>
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed former Secretary of State John Kerry during an interview on Tuesday night over a report from The New York Times that alleged Kerry told Iran&#039;s foreign minister that Israel was behind hundreds of attacks on Iranian assets inside Syria.

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