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Thank you for joining us. we are coming to you tonight from one of the sites of the worst terrorist attacks on u.s. soil-- ground zero, the world trade center site where passenger jets became missiles and office buildings looked like war zones. the attack that forever changed america took place 20 years ago tomorrow. in a moment, we will hear from the families of victims and examine the threats that exist today. well also take you to shanksville, pennsylvania, where flight 93 went down. but were...

Around the employers who wanted to take that next step, and were worried either about doing that for the culture of the office, or the, for the blowback they would get, or worried about legal challenges, and now they can say look, look to the federal government if you want to challenge this. >> jessica levinson, thank you very much for joining us, good to speak to you, always good to have you on the show. >> thank you. so france is the latest european country to ban unvaccinated americans from...

Tradition in this country of mandating vaccines. but i think the other reason he said basically try me, see you in court, is because he wants to convey politically that he tried to be cautious, theres no more time for that, hes thin on patience, and it shows the employers he might want, who might want to challenge, this im serious. and it shows the governors who are balking at a lot of basic safety protocols that he wants to use every lever that he can as part of the federal governments power to...

Respect. the anger you see on television toward flight attendants and others doing their job is wrong, its ugly. >> but the presidents plan is already seeing push back, republican governor of south carolina, henry mcmaster tweeted that he will, quote, fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every south carolynian, and the republican national committee announced its intention to sue. press secretary jen psaki said there will be a 75 day window for employees to get...

Offered these three words. >> have at it. >> reporter: still, the move is a significant shift for the president who was once hesitant to impose any mandates. >> no, i dont think it should be mandatory. i wouldnt demand it to be mandatory. ill do everything in my power as the president of the united states to encourage people to do the right thing. >> reporter: nine months later the pandemic is still raging out of control. and a new cnn poll found that 56% of people now approve of bidens handling...

Going to have more testing. when people go to get tested, going to say it pretty plainly, it sucks, getting the results and access, it takes longer than it should. so this idea, dont worry, were going to get tested, when you need to do it, it is pretty unsatisfying. >> i think youre right. uk, theyve made it easy to get home antigen testing. my sister came in from london a few weeks ago and brought with her a variety of the tests which she would test herself periodically. that would help. youre ...

That mandating vaccines for 100 million americans, giving them that time off to get those shots, will make a difference. the administration, though, already receiving push-back to this. just moments ago, south dakota governor christie nome tweeted to the president, "see in you court." the administration knew they had to take aggressive action to counter this and the president believes the steps he announced tonight will save lives, david. >> rachel scott, thank you. now to the department of ju...

Dont do it? a lot of questions to this that he will open the door to today. >> you think about it, bret, theres more and more companies that are demanding their employees be vaccinated or have proof of that before returning to work. even pushing back in-person return to work until that has happened. so its a ground swell of sort of private industry pushing in that direction but takes on another tone when its the government all but ordering it. >> 100%. there may be legal challenges to this for p...

Leading shows by a freshman republican congressman. since then, several of those evening shows on that network havent mentioned the war at all. >> martha: its interesting. because it is an issue that you saw some widespread push-back from reporters, even reporters that have been generally more positive to president biden. so theres no doubt that the white house sensed this was a problematic issue for them across the board when their friendly reporters are starting to press them. >> i think journ...

Its almost impossible to control and impossible to delete enough copies to really protect all the people who we would like to see protected. >> reporter: human rights first is urging activists and allies in afghanistan to protect themselves. >> you can take steps to secure their identities. they can request their data be deleted by social media companies who are aware of the threat happening now and taking extra measures to delete that information. >> reporter: we reached out to the state depart...