Appreciate it, Anderson. I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to the prime time COVID command center.

We have an exclusive tonight. It's not about COVID, but our guest in her message is as powerful as

any remedy I know. Nightbird is here with us tonight. For her first interview since announcing

she's out of America's Got Talent so she can focus on her fight against cancer. We all need to

hear what she says matters most to her, especially right now. Now of course we're focused on COVID

and on that front we do have news. First, there is concern about a new variant and we're going to

get into it with our first guest in a moment. The word comes as we are getting all we can handle

from the current variant, the Delta variant, which is now over 90% of all new cases in this country.

9 out of 10. It is now seen as a potential national security risk. How so? Defense Secretary

Lloyd Austin is expected to seek authorization to make vaccines mandatory for all active duty

troops as soon as this week. That's more than a million service members. Why? Delta can tear

through and take down so quickly it could affect our defense capabilities. Delta is already affecting

our kids in a way that we have not seen before. I know the talk just as you. As long as you get

the old elderly vaccinated you'll be fine. No, not with Delta. Almost 72,000 kids and teens were

infected last week. That's 84% more than the week before and five times more than June. We have

never seen it like this. Cases are worse and this is not just about the elderly needing protection

anymore. Okay? And yet the reality is still being clouded by politics.

Joe Biden has taken to himself to try to single out Florida over COVID. This is a guy who ran

for president saying he was going to quote shut down the virus. And what has he done? He's

imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border. We can either

have a free society or we can have a biomedical security state. And I can tell you Florida,

we're a free state. Joe Biden suggests that if you don't do lockdown policies then you should

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