I will not stop tweeting. I will not stop posting. I will not stop asking questions.

That was Marjorie Taylor Green repeating my own personal mantra. I will not stop tweeting.

I will not stop posting. Welcome to Potsdam America. I'm John Favreau.

Hands on vacation this week and I am lucky to be joined by Mettie Hassan, the host of the Mettie Hassan show on peacock and MSNBC.

Mettie, welcome back to the pod. Thanks so much for having me, John.

I think it was a year ago that you were guest hosting on the pod with Tommy because it was when my son was born.

Yes. It was about to turn one tomorrow. So this is the year since you've been on the pod.

Thanks. We have a lot of news to cover today. Joe Biden's town Holland Cincinnati where he spoke about the pandemic, the economy and the filibuster.

The Republicans' Interparty Battle over vaccines and the one six commission.

And later I talked to Ekki's research co-founder Stephanie Valencia about how Latino voters are reacting to all the latest news about immigration.

But first, it's Thursday, which means we released a brand new episode of Edith with President Wilson back in charge in the League of Nation vote days away.

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So check it out at crooked.com slash store. All right. Let's get to the news. President Biden was in my wife Emily's hometown of Cincinnati last night for a CNN town hall with Don Lemon.

The president answered 90 minutes worth of questions, but kicked it off with a topic on everyone's mind, the pandemic that just won't quit. Here's a clip.

So you said last month that this that the virus is in retreat. Do you still fill that way? Is that so?

Well, look, here's a real simple. We have a pandemic for those who haven't gotten a vaccination. Is that basic that simple?

10,000 people have recently died. 9,950 of them are about. Are people who hadn't been vaccinated?

So Biden went on to say that the CDC will likely announce that every child under 12 should wear a mask at school and that he expects full FDA approval for the vaccine sometime between late August and October, which would provide firmer legal ground for vaccine mandates.

Medi clearly were in a new phase of the pandemic where things aren't as great as they seemed a few months ago, but much better than they were a year ago.

How do you think that Biden and the White House should handle that?

I think they should take it seriously, which they kind of are. I think we've got to stop playing catch up for me. It's less about Biden. It's more about all of us as a society in a country who want to keep writing this virus off and saying it's time to move on. It's back to normality.

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