Just watched the entire exchange and it's really good. I'm not a huge Dr Phil fan but boy did he nail it and the weakazz responses from uniformed nitwits were pathetic.
"Who does that? Who takes away the support system for these children? Who takes it away and shuts it down?" he asked. "And by the way, when they shut it down, they stopped the mandated reporters from being able to see children that were being abused and sexually molested and, in fact, sent them home and abandoned them to their abusers with no way to watch and referrals dropped 50 to 60%."
It was at this point that Hostin interjected, trying to remind him that this wasn't an isolated decision as there was a larger issue. "There was also a pandemic going on and they were trying to save their lives," she countered.
Whoopi Goldberg quickly chimed in, "They were trying to save kids' lives. So, remember, we know a lot of folks who died during this. People weren't laying around eating bonbons."
Responding to the people who died, Dr. Phil pushed back, "Not school children."
"You know what? We're lucky," Goldberg retorted. "Maybe we're lucky they didn't, because they kept them out of the places that they could be sick because no one wanted to believe we had an issue."
Ana Navarro pointedly asked Dr. Phil, "Are you saying no school children died of Covid?"
"I'm saying it was the safest group," he replied. "They were the less vulnerable group, and they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of Covid than they will from the exposure to Covid, and that's not an opinion, that's a fact."
It was at this point they had to throw to commercial break, effectively ending the interview."
Trying to save kids' lives? Please. Nobody believes that and certainly not now. Both whoopi and Ana are in a high risk group. They should shed some weight before attempting to debate something they really don't understand.