Today, we're going to talk about the danger posed by the reopening of schools coupled

with Republican governor's lacks approach to COVID and the Senate passing the infrastructure

bill and why McConnell gave Joe Biden that win.

I interview Mary Trump about the possibility that Donald runs again in 2024 and whether

we'll see support for him drop off now that he's been out of office for some time.

And Fox LA host Alex Michelson joins to discuss the California recall and what a Republican

win could mean for the state. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No lie.

Somehow even with a year and a half's worth of knowledge about this pandemic, even with

a life saving vaccine, we are now mired in the fourth wave of this virus, arguably the

worst wave to date. But what's leagues worse is that we're now seeing this fusion of every

element of the GOP's mishandling of this pandemic finally come to bear. And that is when

you have dismal vaccination rates concentrated primarily in red areas, coupled with this

new more severe, more transmissible delta variant, coupled with school starting across the

country, coupled with the Republican leadership that would rather pander to Tucker Carlson

and Donald Trump than bother following the science. What you're left with is a horribly

dire situation. And there are a lot of ways to describe how bad COVID is and I feel like

we're numb to just about all of them at this point. You know, the number of cases, all

those figures and statistics, but here's one that I feel like is pretty easy to wrap our

heads around. There is no room left in the hospitals. There are no more ICU beds and Mississippi.

There are no more pediatric ICU beds in North Texas. There are no more ICU beds left in Arkansas.

There are no more ICU beds in Nashville, Tennessee. In states that do have ICU beds,

you could be looking at 12 hour waits to get one. One person Louisiana who suffered a heart attack

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