Never had before in serious condition and many on ventilators. we have not had 100,000 children serious conditions in u.s. hospitals. according to the cdc. the number is around 3000 but according to the cdc, is unclear how many children were brought into hospitals or other reasons and simply tested positive for covid upon arrival. the biden administration is implement think the vaccine requirements next week so a decision could come in days, even hours. eric: we are on god for that. thank you. arthel: more on this, we are bringing in tom, former deputy assistant attorney general, should the supreme court be involved in vaccine mandates? the supreme court decides cases presented to them and in this case from a perspective upon constitutional law is a blockbuster. as we heard yesterday there were a lot of robust questioning,
Forget thinking i probably cost him the 600 votes. only kidding about that part but probably did. when he asked me to come back and campaign for him when he ran for the house and 1982, he won that time and he won an 86 and we go on to serve and congress together for more than 30 years. we worked together eight years in office and he was never really done seriously asked me to campaign for a nevada democrat. eric: president biden giving a remembers of his fellow senator harry reid. his remarks following former president obama short time ago. senator passed away december 28 after a four year battle with
Unsecured the border. listen. had the first president in the history of this nation joe biden, the first president that came into office and unsecured the border the most secure border we ever had and purposely unsecured. the president has done that. we have a secretary who came into office and unsecured the border and made our home in less secure. concerning statistics to report, dhs source telling us in the rio grande valley sector, there have been more than 13000 known got a waste and more than 60 sex offenders arrested here. back to you. eric: bill melugin, thank you. arthel: new district attorney already at odds with the cities police commissioner, details on how the d.a. is defending some of the progressive policies and how they could affect the
Arthel: quickly, we are talking private companies with 100 or more employees but if you work outdoors, okay, all right, i m by myself, i don t have to wear a mask but if you look work in close quarters than he would so you have one governing rule that applies when appropriate. it is one governing rule and what some would say is given the importance to have fun businesses or workers putting their job because they are not in supply, the question is, could there be a gnarly tailored mandate, it takes into the nature of the job and employer and hardship imposed on the employer? is a complicated question and they are the tough questions the supreme court is wrestling with and will decide in the next few days. arthel: we will wait for their decision, thank you, take care. thank you. arthel: eric we want let s go to the seven border, biden
Back better bill that didn t even get passed and came very late to the filibuster democracy argument. president biden giving a very good speech and coming out against the filibuster for voting rights in atlanta earlier this month but far too late for this process to have worked. again, you know, i don t know the conversations. but we can t just let them off the hook. no, i m not asking about conversations. i m asking you as a prominent elected democrat, what do you make of the strategy of your party and the leader of your party to come so late to this debate? all of 2021, people like me have been shouting about the threat to democracy, and joe biden comes along and starts saying let s get rid of the filibuster in january 2022? i truly believe the vice president and the president actually believe and understand the danger of this, and i think they did all the work they re supposed to do. i think what s also important for us to understand, you know, these two senators have agency. we can t just give an excuse well, everyone else didn t do their jobs. no. these are adults. these are people that have opinions, by the way, counter to