 and welcome back to news on we want to welcome back in our bipartisan panel joining us once again Robin Byron Melissa Armo and Melissa I apologize we were approaching at a commercial break and I gave you a very loaded question so you were talking about your reaction to the vice president stumping there for governor Gavin Newsom in California again that recall election just days away now and what I was basically asking you what some people are questioning the focus of this administration should she have been there to begin with to stump for Newsom given all that's going on right now no but I think it makes sense because she's from California and I think they're in desperate straits because he's neck and neck in the polls with Larry Elder right now so they're trying to pull about stops although I don't think you're going there will help Newsom but she's been trying to distance herself from President Biden with all of the Afghanistan controversy and you really haven't seen much of her really for the last few months you make an interesting point there Robin we really haven't seen a whole lot of her I mean I know she was making that that tour in Asia but she's been pretty quiet I mean it was months there I mean she was the border czar and we didn't even see her go to the border I mean your thoughts Melissa thank you for bringing up the point that she is from California so I understand why why they sent her there I agree with you though I don't think necessarily that it's going to help much I'm not really sure we don't really track popularity polls for by students but I'm not really sure where she stands with the American public right now specifically because we really haven't seen that much of her this is a very hotly contested race though I frankly am glad that she's going out there but I need to say this this is very important that individual who is wearing the pink gorilla mask needs to be prosecuted and held to the highest letter of the law because that was assault and that's not okay I don't care what your politics are that is never okay right yeah I think we can all agree on that I love seeing civility and dignity we can bring that back we do it on the show all the time right come on look at the time examples all right so speaking of popularity we've been talking a lot about the polls and the president's approval ratings and now the latest economists you go pull showing just 39% approve of the president's overall job performance that is down quite a bit so I have to ask you Robin as someone I mean you're a Democrat you're running for office obviously you know a lot of people are concerned about the midterms how challenging is this for you as a candidate oh I'm really glad you asked this is challenging for me as a candidate because while this has nothing to do with my race it still matters because it's going to affect vote turnout Democrats are notorious for not turning out for municipal elections off election years and this will definitely hurt me I'm working extra hard to overcome this right now and how do you do that with people who are independent or moderate because I think a lot of people would describe you as more of a moderate Democrat is that fair to say yes it is fair to say and you what I have to do is give fair criticism and that's what I try to do I've criticized very fairly what you know Obama's missteps here with Afghanistan this was rushed we've known about this for quite some time he's been it's not like he was just inaugurated last month he's been president for quite a while now there should have been a better plan you're talking about Biden he's been in office for what 50 years I mean it's not like he's a new kid on the block yeah this is this is so you give fair objective criticism and that's really what all politicians and politicians should do I wish that we would get away from sort of the left or right and just talk about some common sense issues I don't know why that's so difficult Melissa why is that so difficult I don't know the whole country's become so polarized even prior to COVID I'd say the last two years but really people that weren't even discussing politics or didn't even take a side once the government shut down the country once COVID hit then everyone was paying attention to politics because you had to to see what was going on and then of course it was an election year and then of course the results of the election were contested by both sides and then it was a problem and now we're getting the situation where what's going to happen going forward with mail and ballots I think that the voter rolls need to be cleaned up I think mail and ballots are a problem I think no voter ID is a problem and I think it's going to be hard for the American people in 2022 and 2024 which really when you think about it is less than three and a half years away it's going to be hard for people to have confidence in upcoming big elections and California is one of those to be honest with you they're allowing mail and ballots how are people going to be confident in the outcome of that election with no voter ID and mail and ballots but you have to bring back some kind of normality to people getting along and also to make sure that the vote is true and bringing power back to the people one thing I'm going to keep bringing it up on this show all day long whether you like him or don't like him Ted Cruz has brought it up three times talking about term limits when it comes to some of these politicians in office something maybe to consider love to have them on the show to talk about that but in the few minutes that we have remaining because that is for another day I'd love to get your thoughts on again the president's going to be unveiling this plan there's talk about vaccine mandates for federal workers that is a rumor right now we have not been able to confirm that the president is going to be delivering that live address again on this six point prong plan and when it comes to battling a COVID Robin what do you anticipate to come out of this that we haven't already heard from the president with this will be a thing with the mandates for federal employees to get vaccinated now that we have final FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine I'm glad that they waited until then that was the right and responsible decision to make and look I've got children in public school I had to get them vaccinated for months and measles and everything else so if you're going to be serving the public and a job and a federal administration you've got to be vaccinated I got it other things we've got to address the skepticism you know there's still so many vaccine skeptics I have friends that are that take the word of people like Tucker Carlson for gospel and some of some of what's being said can be very damaging and there are concerns that need to be put to rest with science so you bring up science Melissa it does seem like we talked about division in this country the facts versus the unvaxxed there are some people that would say there should be religious if not medical exceptions to some of this or at least the option to be tested not to mention there are still people getting covid right even after they've been vaccinated we've talked about third booster shots you've got Israel now during doing for booster shots so some people are saying this is just life as we know it but going to what Robin had to say I want to get your reaction Melissa I think it's going to be difficult to say anything new because people know that people are still getting covid after getting vaccinated so based on that the people that are skeptical about getting there whether it's FDA approved or not it's not going to incent them to take it and I think the mandates are problem people should be able to decide what they want to do with their bodies and I think it's a problem they're going to come out in the six point plan what will that be I don't know but I can tell you right now he's going to bring up again that we're doing this so that we don't have to shut down again that's going to be his rationale that's going to be his reasoning somewhere that's going to be in this speech and that's going to continue just like we saw it was a couple of weeks ago before the Afghanistan things I think it was in the end of July he brought it up again almost almost putting the fear bug out there that we might have to shut down again if we don't all get vaccinated it's going to come out again we have to do these things because if we don't we might have to have another shut down this is going to continue continue continue and I can't even say and I said this before and I'll say it again there's still a 50 50 chance that they shut us down again and why because we don't trust the decisions that the people are making behind the scenes who is that Dr. Fauci the CDC and all the people in the background that knew well well well before they told anybody what was happening with COVID back in early 2020 and some people are saying now even in 2019 they knew about this oh you just brought up another vet idea 50 50 chance that we could shut down again I hate to wage bets on that but I'm going to bet you on this because I nearly lost $1,000 the last time so do you think it's a 50 chance that we could be shut down again I don't think that we're headed for a shutdown but I do expect for President Biden to make the case that if you have a job working for the federal government serving the people you have a responsibility to keep them safe by getting vaccinated yourself vaccinate okay fair enough that was a safe way out all right Rob and Melissa thank you both for joining us I'd love to hear what our viewers have to think about these topics you can always weigh in by finding me at real moranda con hashtag share your voice we'll be right back