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The American public is being misled about the coronavirus vaccines, and it needs to stop now. That\u2019s what Dr. Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Institute, tells co-host Molly Jong-Fast on the sobering latest episode of The New Abnormal. Fully vaccinated folks are walking around thinking they\u2019re 95 percent protected from the virus, but with the Delta variant raging across the country, that number is actually more like 50 percent, Topol says.Next on the show, Daily Beast contributing editor Spencer Ackerman joins co-host Jesse Cannon to talk about his amazing new book, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. All the explanations for Donald Trump becoming president \u201cseem to just sort of gloss over the fact that for the past 20 years, this country has been continuously at war,\u201d Ackerman tells Jesse. That enemy was never precisely defined, though it ultimately was radical Islam or even Islam itself\u2014 \u201dwhich opened the door for a really broad series of authoritarian possibilities." Finally, Jesse gifts Molly a very special early birthday present\u2014a special message from a certain former mayor and cigar fan.

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