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Vaccines are what's going to get us out of this pandemic. i can't say that enough. >> to that point, the fact that the mandates are working, as you point out, part of what governor abbott said is he touched on the reasoning being partially this nursing shortage, right? we know there was a nursing shortage across the country before covid. covid exacerbated it because of all of the frontline workers, which you know all too well, have just been overworked and exhausted emotionally and physically. is there anything that you have seen, even in your own hospital, that actually underscores the point ...

Is this legal? is this going to stick? >> so, this is a big deal for these companies that are headquartered in texas. they're now facing potential fines for failure to comply with the governor's executive order, but i got to tell you, i think legally it is on very shaky ground and here's why. remember governor abbott tried to do this weeks ago with schools. he said that schools cannot mandate vaccines for covid. but this is upping the ante because the president's executive order mandating the vaccine for both federal workers, federal contractors and also for businesses that have over 100 emplo...

Hikenburg got the silver and bronze. and ledecky powers over australia in her final leg to come within .4 of the gold, won by china's world record setting time. amazing. the u.s. leads the world with 37 total medals, but trails japan's 15 golds by two. meanwhile, two-time reigning world pole vault champion sam kendricks will not represent the united states in tokyo after testing positive for covid-19. heartbreaking. his father confirmed the news yesterday in a since deleted post on instagram writing, quote, officials informed sam that his daily test was positive so he is out. >> how sad. >> it...

Choice but there should be some consequence here. i think that the fringe of the republican party -- and it is only the fringe, are people who are against this vaccine and as you said, mcconnell has been fully against this. he's running a six-figure campaign in kentucky to get people vaccinated. i think it's become a moment where the dam has broken so to speak and it's become painfully obvious that they have to change their tune on this. >> what's painfully obvious, joe, to continue to answer jake's question for you, is that the people who are getting sick and dying are unvaccinated. and they'...

License giving bad advice and that bad advice should be ignored. mcconnell plans to run 60-second radio ads in the coming days promoting the vaccine with money from his re-election campaign. not enough people are vaccinated he said, so we're trying to get them to reconsider and get back on the path to get us to some level of herd immunity. i think that's a big move and mitch mcconnell can actually appeal to some people that have been afraid of the vaccine or who have been receiving disinformation right and left. according to analysis by "the washington post" the rate of coronavirus new infecti...