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Lives amongst things like bargaining power. this is the wrong hill to die on. >> reporter: the looming mandates triggered concerns over staffing shortages. seattles public schools cancelled about 140 bus routes fearing too few vaccinated drivers. on friday, just 82% of the citys police department was in compliance with the vaccine policy. that number now jumping to 98%. massachusetts moved preemptively to offset possible staffing shortages among state troopers by calling up its national guard to...

Departments are bracing for potential staffing shortages as some unions refuse to comply with city vaccine protocols. alexandria field has the latest. >> reporter: the battle over life saving vaccine mandates now pitting cities across country against their own police departments. >> this notion that individual officers get to be insubordinate as they choose and pick and choose, were not having that. >> reporter: chicago limiting time off for all officers as a vaccine mandate takes effect, while ...

Up a public health crisis and a vaccine that can save lives. amongst things like bargaining power. this is the wrong hill to die on. this is really a circumstance where those police officers are particularly high risk because of their occupation. yeah, just this year already, more than 200 chicago police officers have died of covid-19. many of those probably unnecessary because vaccinations werent taken advantage of. so everybody take a breath here and try to figure out if you got something you ...

There could be a come back? >> kat: i want to know what would possibly lead to that. based on what evidence? he resigned. this was all really bad. hes a bad guy. but there is still all these other things that he did. >> greg: the nursing home. >> kat: priority testing for family and friends. i lose track, so many horrible things. misusing the funds for the book. what a weird hill to die on. why, chuck todd? maybe he got the test. >> greg: there you go. he could still run again as governor or he ...

That no human would want to live there, you know who did, mr. president, i did. >> now, i understand why blackwell is emotional, hes news anchor and accusing the president of targeting black and brown people, is that the role of news anchor? >> youre not to become the news and report the news sometimes theres a mountian to -- mountain to die on. look, im a white woman, i dont know what its like to walk in the skin of an individual such as víctor who is an african-american male all too often to ...

When he said ill keep it closed for a month or a year, i think he weirdly meant it. >> its the hill hes chosen to die on. the one he signalled he would die on when he made the wall a center piece of his campaign. but youve got at the beginning of this hour which is that you showed that republicans in congress have always thought this was a dumb idea. and they came around to it only out of partisan loyalty, partisan necessity. but this is ultimately about trumps relationship to his base, not abou...

When mitch mcconnell starts hearing from the senators. i got this irs senator in my district. there are 5,000 people not getting paychecks this week. ive got a homeland security office in my district or my state. another thousand people arent getting paid. thats when the rubber hits the road i think. >> you spoke to this is its always the cases that doesnt effect trump. hes where hes always been. its like all the sudden theres a high pitch noise in the room and everyones like oh, my god and ther...

Youre dean heller. >> the republican party is a far different party. this president owns this party so heller has one chance, this is it. may not be the best chance, but thats his chance to win in nevada. >> as they say in vegas, double down. >> absolutely. >> thats the hill hes going to die on. >> if you can get people to turn out to a rally and stand in line and wait four hours, they are going to come out and work. >> thats not true. i worked for bernie sanders. >> thats not true. >> they care...

Entire hill is, you know, thinking about this man in the terms of the small place where they work and really lion izing the contributions hes made. republicans are so angry at the white house for this. >> john has lived a life of service. they are upset about the leaks. he is an american hero, he is a states man, and he is somebody who deserves respect. at this point, this is the wrong cross to die on. this is a ridiculous position for the white house to stick with. they need to apologize. i cou...

Donald trump. he, he proved that at the c.i.a. at times he would say things that would distress critics. but when he was on the hill for instance talking about russias influence, he said some things that donald trump certainly didnt like. hes also promising to rebuild state. im just -- i understand democrats want to oppose donald trump nominees, i wonder if this is the hill they want to fight and die on. >> i think weve seen a few red state democrats facing tough re-elections that are going to s...