Today, we're going to talk about Fox News and Republicans' coordinated effort to stop

their own supporters from getting a lifesaving vaccine and what the consequences from that

are already looking like.

I interview Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm about the likelihood of the American

jobs plan passing, where the McConnell's bad faith behavior is pushing the White House

away from seeking bipartisanship, and whether the bill does enough to combat climate change

in the wake of record heat.

And I chat with longtime Capitol Hill veteran Stewart Perlmutter about Virginia's Republican

candidate for governor getting caught giving his real views on abortion.

I'm Brian Taylor Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

So from the people who brought you, pretending the virus wasn't real, and then refusing

testing and contact tracing and fomenting protests against stay at home orders and scoffing

at social distancing and politicizing masks, we now have vaccine skepticism.

The natural progression for Republican Party, whose official position seems to be, we will

not be satisfied until the most people possible die.

And look, I want to make the caveat that of course not all Republicans are anti-vaxxers,

but effectively all anti-vaxxers are Republicans.

New polling shows that 93% of Democrats say they've either been vaccinated or planned

to get vaccinated compared to just 49% of Republicans.

And that's played out on a statewide level too.

Twenty states have reached the 70% mark for vaccinations.

Vermont, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Mexico, New Jersey, Rhode Island,

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