 and welcome back to news on a moranda con we'd like to welcome in our panel now joining us a former obama campaign director robin byro and cio and founder of stock swish melissa armo nice to see both of you on this thursday good to be bad so uh... as we mentioned at the top of the show the cdc reconsidering now reportedly we're issuing this mask mandate we've already seen this happen in l.a. and there's reports out there this specifically uh... referencing the washington post saying that the white house administration is meeting with cdc officials uh... to talk about doing that especially when it comes to crowds regardless of whether or not you've been vaccinated uh... robin i want to start with you on this uh... we've seen the comparisons between california and florida and florida having people that are especially more susceptible to this virus and they lifted restrictions far earlier then california did and yet the numbers didn't seem to add up do you see us going back to mask mandates you know i really nobody wants that i think we can all agree nobody wants that and we certainly don't want another lockdown the numbers though moranda don't lie right here in georgia we've wore up a hundred and ninety three percent and in new cases of coronavirus over the last two weeks uh... and that's among largely unvaccinated people so it's the numbers aren't looking good but i'll say this mask mandates the cdc can say all they want they're not enforceable they tried to enforce them here with a fifteen dollar penalty they handed out zero tickets because they're not enforceable so it's a it's a lovely suggestion of personal health and responsibility from the cdc but if there's no teeth behind it what does it matter you talked about the numbers so as we also mentioned the cdc now admitting that oops it made a mistake and that human error they just happened to double the number of people that have recently died from covin nineteen uh... does this in any way undermine their credibility robin of course it does how can i not uh... but when if the if the cases are up with the said a hundred ninety three percent if it's up a hundred percent that's still pretty bad i'll tell you that right here in georgia in atlanta we had a five-year-old five die of of coronavirus yesterday and without any other complications so i'm concerned because look i've got school aged kids they go back to school august second that's like a week and a half away uh... and it's all in-person school um so it's going to be a problem and and you know my kids feel more secure when they wear a mask but i mean i'm nervous and concerned as a parent melissa i want you to weigh in on this again you know you've got the city saying oops we made a mistake you have these democrat you know uh... democratic that flew from uh... texas to dc and then they ended up getting covered some of them already been vaccinated now we're hearing people that got the vaccine got covered i mean what's the answer their mask no mask you get the vaccine you may still get it anyway i mean how should the u.s respond yeah i think that the problem is within the last 18 months the cdc people have stopped trusting the cdc because what happened with the virus because remember at the beginning they knew more about what was happening with the virus in china than they told the american people and they've changed your guidelines so many different times it's not just the day that that came out in the last week they've changed their tune off and on and so has dr fouchy so i think the biggest misstep is that people have stopped trusting them a hundred percent and including that a lot of people have lost trust in the medical profession because they've changed their tune on this too i'd rather have people come out and say we don't know rather than say oh you have to do this oh then we change your mind and flipped it on this personally i am not interested in wearing a mask again i'm concerned that they're going to make this a mandate in new york city because again they made it a law now in la listen we're adults if people want to wear a mask and you're concerned about getting the virus to wear a mask robin mentioned his children then they can wear masks the fact is that if people want to get vaccinated they can get vaccinated if they want to wear a mask they can wear a mask this type of treating adults like children i think that as americans we really have to stand up to it now i've had enough of it personally and i think a lot of people have to but they may not say it they may be scared to actually voice their opinion on that they're tired of the government telling them what to do well uh someone who's not scared uh you you mentioned people not having faith in the cdc well representative madison cthorn is now the latest republican i mean forget having mistrust he's flat out calling dr anthony fouchy a liar of course this comes after that very heated exchange we said to ram paul here's a little snippet from their war of words in case our audience missed it let's take a listen did come to the lab but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab you there will be a responsibility for those who funded the lab including yourself i totally this committee will allow the witness to i totally resent the lie that you are now propagating senator all right so uh this is not the first time these two have gone at it but what when it comes to dr anthony fouchy melissa uh is his credibility is is he losing credibility with most america i think his credibility is shot with me personally and i think a lot of people and now that there's a lot of democrats and again the administration that still put him up on a pedestal that he's god and everything he says has to be true but when his emails came out which i forget when that was a month ago a couple of weeks ago and you saw that he knew what was going on way earlier than they came out back in january february people blamed president trump for not shutting down uh the international flights coming in they knew what was going on way before they announced it in march to the american people and i have a big problem with that and again he's lost credibility to me i'm not going to listen to him if he tells me to wear a mask or not to wear a mask or whatever i make my own choices he's he's just shot as far as bill credibility is concerned after those emails work who came out because he knew in january about some of these things in the exchange with the with the wuhan lab they know they were funding the research you can read the emails robin what do you have to say i'm more into you first i hate that this whole thing is being politicized i just want americans to be safe and and keep the family safe and loved ones safe but look i'm more interested in what they were actually arguing about uh if you'll recall the bite administration did say that they were going to be doing a 90-day investigation because there is evidence that this may have originated in the lab in wuhan china um and work probably getting up we're probably about a month away yeah but robin we do i do remember that to interject real quickly yeah of course i remember that we also remember the several people uh removed from social media for suggesting such a thing until now that they're saying well maybe there is some truth to that i do remember that that does sound like we're about to wear you know that's not going to go anywhere i'll bet you a hundred dollars that doesn't go anywhere between now and january for a thousand dollars robin it's not going to go anywhere the administration is not going to investigate china and even if they did it's about two years too late come on i mean this was last of that yeah they're in the midst of that investigation right now i think it's about a month away i you know i'll take you up on that melissa we'll bet i think we're gonna find out something we're gonna find out oh this is good this is good i like this i like this okay so whoa whoa whoa wait well let's let's get to the numbers here uh going back melissa you you're betting him a thousand dollars that we'll never know well i'll give him a choice he can pick a hundred or a thousand whatever he wants but i don't think we're ever going to know but i want to give a day are you losing faith are you losing faith in your bet no i'm just saying i don't want to put him under pressure i'm saying by january 1st 2022 i bet that we don't know anything about an investigation they've been talking about doing what robin can choose the money a hundred or a thousand all right robin my mayoral a thousand dollars toward my mayoral campaign oh this is good this is good i like this okay so uh note to everyone that's watching this we are definitely going to save this clip and come january we're going to play it again and have you both on see who's richer for that um and i'm going to have you guys respond to this coming up after the break because we're running against a commercial break but speaking of this controversy as you know marjorie taylor green was also removed from social media for some of the remarks that she made in regards to coven we're going to get our panel to respond to that coming up after the break also we're going to talk about inflation right all of you have noticed you're spending more at the pump at the grocery store on all sorts of things now the president says don't worry about it this is only temporary but is it really and what impact could his four trillion dollar spending package have on your wallet specifically robin viro and melissa armor are going to join us to weigh in on that coming up after the break and you can always weigh in on these issues because your voice is the most important voice on this network by finding me at real moranda con hashtag share your voice we'll be right back you're watching news on