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Where cases stay low. its yet president announced a number of vaccine mandates for companies and federal workers last week, but already this weekend were seeing what happens when some employees choose to leave their jobs rather than get the covid vaccine and theres growing political opposition to those mandates and we begin tonight with morgan chesky. >> tonight, growing backlash over president bidens vaccine mandate. at least 19 republican governors denouncing the rule, requiring businesses wit...

Businesses with more than 100 workers to require vaccination, or -- and this is important -- or they can set up weekly testing, plus give workers paid-time off to get tested. so they actually have a choice. something you didnt hear those republican governors mention when they were thundering away. something we would have asked them about, if one of them -- just one -- would have found the time to come on the program. now, reasonable minds could debate the legal framework behind the presidents or...

Additional point, which is, you know, we keep talking about these as if theyre mandates, vaccine mandates, the language that people use when they attack it. but in this isnt even a vaccine requirement. right. you get, the employer has to have a vaccination or they can provide for weekly testing. thats the other option. the law that was upheld in 1905 in massachusetts the smallpox vaccination law, was one where there was a criminal fine associated with not getting vaccinated. it applied to indivi...

Weve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us. so please do the right thing. >> president biden announced that all unvaccinated employees at private companies with more than 100 workers, they have to do weekly testing. the way to get out of weekly testing, get vaccinated. hes also implementing vaccine mandates for all federal workers and contractors, no option to test out, and for educators and all federally funded programs. mandates also on workers at f...

House felt it would get that many more people vaccinated. just one point on j.d. vance and others. the through line here, jake, the actual mandate, the osha mandate on companies isnt vaccinations. the osha mandate is weekly testing. so what j.d. vance is saying, dont comply with weekly testing? dont force people who are unvaccinated to take a test before they walk in the door? he wants to preserve their right to walk into a place of work with covid? im just -- again, if you get down to the basic...

Law 7-2 that upheld vaccine mandates. and so when you -- with federal workers and all those things, i think they may legally have a little bit more difficulty with the private sector. i think what the president has done will encourage more companies to do what a lot of the tech companies have done. what disney has done, abc, what most of the tv stations have done including fox is to mandate vaccines or testing. and, of course, the vaccines are free. if youre a company wanting to save money, goin...

Unveiled by the white house yesterday. president bidens strongest push yet to contain the coronavirus pandemic. >> my message to unvaccinated americans is this. what more is there to wait for? what more do you need to see? weve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us. so please do the right thing. >> the presidents goal here, to get the pandemic under control. and now some 100 million americans are under aggressive new vaccination rules. so here are the...

Funding, we couldnt hire more teachers to reduce class size or offer insentive for the vaccine but most importantly we couldnt implement weekly testing. i do not believe without weekly testing coy feel comfortable that we could mitigate the spread of covid so we could do that for the next two years. but i think the question is how long are we going to accept this new normal, if you will, of masking and weekly testing and i think that is the question that were raising today with the vaccine. >> a...

Local leader, who has been waiting for full fda approval to require vaccinations, i call on you now to do that, require it. >> reporter: tonight, the pentagon is preparing to require the shot for 1.3 million active duty troops. new york city mandating the vaccine for all school employees, without the option for weekly testing. and at united airlines, workers will have five weeks from today to show proof of vaccination. the question is whether full approval will trigger a wave of desperately need...

To align our school strategy to the state strategy and become the first state in the country to require that all of our staff, not just teachers, folks that are critical to supporting the entire school ecosystem also submit a verification of vaccination and/or submit to weekly testing. >> harris: you heard it for yourself. california is now the first state to mandate teachers get vaccines or face regular testing. the battle over mask mandates continues to rage across america. in texas officials ...