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custody by the fbi following the altercation. and you know it seems like making this a whole lot worse? more regulation. dr. fauci is now pushing a whole foul vaccine rule for your next flight. >> if you're talking about requiring vaccinations to get on a plane domestically, that is just another one of the requirements that i think is reasonable to consider. when you make vaccination a requirement, that is another incentive to get more people vaccinated. if you want to do that with domestic flights, i think that is something that seriously should be considered. speak up but there is nothing that dr. fauci that would put out there that you'd say you need this -- stick you with another shot. how about the idea that you can't even get on another airplane? rachel, i can only imagine what you and sean go through putting all the duffy's on a plane trying to get them all on a mask. it has to be an absolute unbelievable scene at an
Sen. Joe Manchin sent his party scrambling this week to revise its sweeping domestic policy agenda on almost everything but drug-price negotiation and bolstering Obamacare.
could be a shortage of the home tests or the tests that are available, easily available, at pharmacies? >> yeah. that certainly was a real concern even as of six or eight weeks ago. that's starting to get better. fda authorized a few more. seeing more in walmart and cvs. those places stocking up. more expensive than they should be. we have to find a way to drive prices lower but thy they're becoming more available. >> the government asked the justice department, asking the federal appeals court, to immediately lift the court-ordered stay from the fifth circuit on the workplace covid-19 vaccine rule for businesses. that osha, which was going to oversee the stay, only has oversight over the workplace and the government appeal, lawyers far as i know you're not, i know i'm not. osha has regulatory authority over all safety, and that the pandemic is clearly something that effects the whole country,
peter doocy over at the white house holding them accountable. now the biden administration may be widening its vaccine mandan ate net soon with word tonight that osha, the occupational safety and health administration is, quote, assessing administration straightive capacity of smaller businesses with less than a hundred employees to implement the requirements in a quote, timely manner. senior correspondent laura ingle has that story for us tonight. hey, laura. >> hi, kevin. osha announcing a new standard this week for langer private employers to protect their workers from the risk of getting covid-19 and is now reportedly eyeing small businesses, too, and as you can guess there is mountain pushback. the occupational safety and health administration known as osha announced a new vaccine rule thursday that will require some u.s. employers to guarantee all their workers are either fully vaccinated by january 4, or require them to undergo weekly testing and wear masks.