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How it would unfold this plan for implementing this. i looked it over. i believe if i wanted to i could wiggle my way through the next 2 years and get my requirement but i would have to sacrifice my personal integrity and took my back on the oath i took to protect americans rights. this is not about me. its not about my requirement. -- retirement. there is a quote i reflect on: the only thing for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. thats what i would be doing if i wiggle through. >> s...

Data, school districts around the country are focusing on slowing the spread of covid in the classroom. new york citys mayor says starting september 27th, students attending school in the city will be tested weekly for covid-19. as opposed to biweekly. and in the nations capital, the mayor getting rid of the testing option and mandating all teachers, staff and child care workers must be vaccinated. >> this applies to d.c. public schools, public charter schools, private schools, parochial schools...

The new york restaurant association that says not only does this new policy exclude a testing option like the one included in president bidens plan but the burden is once again on our employees to police our guests. there has to be a better way. there was a lawsuit filed last month by restaurants challenging this policy and it was dismissed, rejected by the courts on friday. for now new york citys mandate for vaccines on establishments like the theater and restaurants moving forward for now. >> ...

Could have on our business >> reporter: and peter, i know the president is getting it from all sides. there are some health experts saying he didnt go far enough. >> yeah, lester, thats right dr. fauci among them saying he would have preferred mandating vaccines for workers without that testing option tonight the white house argues its on firm legal ground for the mandate, relying on a 50-year-old law that gives the federal government the power to protect employees from grave dangers at work les...

Think about a legal challenge that could offer an opportunity to have americans get back to some sort of normal. think how desperately we would have wanted that 20 years ago. so it is shocking to me. by the way, im glad you brought up the affordable care act because i had to live through that battle, and republicans even at that time, yasmin, had no alternative. there was no kind of lets get rid of the affordable care act and do, here is the following to replace this, because the truth is there ...

Anderson and to our dr. gupta earlier. and he was asked, you know, why not just do the vaccine mandate, instead of allowing weekly testing as an alternative? here is his answer. >> well, i think the president is -- is -- is -- you know, being somewhat moderate in his demand if you want to call it that. in that there are some people who really dont want to get vaccinated but they dont want to lose their job. you have got to give them an off lane and the off lane is if you get tested frequently en...

Lane, and the off lane is if you get tested frequently enough and find out youre positive you wont come to work and you wont infect other people. so it really is somewhat of a compromise there. myself, i would make it just vaccinate or not, but he was trying to be moderate in what his pronouncement was. >> so dr. fauci there saying he would not let workers opt out of vaccine requirements with testing. was this biden policy made based on public health or political considerations or both? >> a lit...

Of the largest tenants of this plan, but it would also mandate vaccines for all federal workers, contractors with no testing option, mandate vaccines for educators in federally funded programs, for workers at facilities that accept medicare, medicaid funding and call on entertainment venues to require proof of vaccination or testing. officials behind the scenes tell cnn that they recognize that large employers could really mount challenges in court because of these new actions. but they hope tha...

Must mandate vaccinations or weekly testing. in addition, all federal workers or companies with federal contracts must have their employees vaccinated with no testing option. that includes 17 million health care workers at medicare and medicaid participating facilities. any minute now, the president and first lady will continue that push at a local school in d.c. speaking of schools, overnight, los angeles county, the second largest school district in the nation made it mandatory for students 12...

Collectively get us out of this pandemic. but as this did not happen, as the delta variant spread, we are seeing these steps from the president. so, again, one of the most significant steps is on these private businesses of 100 or more employees requiring them to have their employees be either vaccinated or submit to regular coronavirus testing. then, of course, there is this mandate for all federal workers and employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated with no longer having that testing ...