Everyone should know the strain this puts on our hospitals and the need to get our vaccinations and how critical our bed space is.

Asa Hutchinson

I've made it clear : I think we ought to have a different direction in the future.

As the investigation continues, I will examine details to see if there are any steps that could have been taken to prevent this type of tragedy.

There's so many public policy decisions involved with this. CDC is only one of the entities that needs to be involved in this, and it really is a whole of government discussion, by the way, it's a whole of government discussion at the federal, state and local level. The governors need to be part of that discussion, too.

We look for effectiveness and we look for some measure of bipartisanship, and we really haven’t seen that yet.

Whether you talk about border security, whether you talk about Afghanistan withdrawal, whether you talk about the inflation challenges we have, all of those areas the grade is poor.

I had the opportunity to serve in the Bush administration and on border security, so I know how tough it is. I know how difficult it is, some of the governors have actually sent our National Guard resources, you know, to the border to assist at state expense. So we'd welcome your comments as to how you're meeting this challenge and the plans for the future in that regard.

I’m concentrating on finishing my term well as governor, i do want to be a voice that talks about conservative, common sense ideas, and we’ll see where that leads.

I do not believe Trump is the one to lead our party and our country again, as president, i've made it clear: This is about the future. It's not about the past elections.

I think whenever, even in our own caucus, our own members, if they go the wrong direction, I mean, it has to be called out.

Facts change, and leaders have to adjust to the new facts -- and the reality of what you have to deal with.

In hindsight, I wish that had not become law, but it is the law, and the only chance we have is either to amend it or for the courts to say that it has an unconstitutional foundation.

People knew exactly what to do. They were capable of making their decisions.

This is a pivotal moment in our race against the Covid virus. We have school coming up. We have a lot of sports activities that people are expecting and anxious about, and what's holding us back is a low vaccination rate.

That is the guideline that we have in place but we don't have a mandate because that was held back from the legislature.

In terms of Liz Cheney, Liz Cheney's a conservative, Liz Cheney did a vote of conscience and Liz Cheney should not be ousted because of one vote of conscience.

This is thefirst law in the nation thatinvokes the state betweenmedical decisions, parents whoconsent to that and the decisionof the patient.And so, this goes way too far.And in fact, it doesn't evenhave a grandfather clause [for] those young people that areunder hormonal treatment.

I would not say we ought to reverse course, but if we had to start it all over again, I would have kept( all the doses) within the state, because we could utilize all those federal partners within our own allocation.

As everyone has indicated, there shouldn't be any change in the date of the election. That is historic. It is constitutional. It is required. And it's up to the states to conduct fair elections with integrity, we are going to do that in Arkansas. We are going to have expanded absentee ballot access. But we want to do it with proper controls and to minimize any fraudulent activity.