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State and local level since the early 1900s, many states including my own have passed laws preemptively forbidding government to take any action that would mandate masks, mandate vaccine information, vaccine passports. so they are actually moving rapidly in another direction, which would really tie our hands as the delta variant gets more and more robust. >> governor, i recognize that certain areas and state governments have done what you describe. do you think in those areas where executives of states have more authorities that when the dfa approval is final, they will exercise it? >> i certa...

And the same should apply to governors and mayors. in san francisco mayor london breed did just that for all 35,000 city employees and the policy has not been met with any significant resistance. city employees there have until july 29 to report their status and no later than ten weeks after the fda gives final approval to one vaccine to get vaccinated. waiting until final approval, that's not necessary, but at least it's a step in the right direction. on thursday alabama's republican governor addressed the fact that her state had seen nearly 10,000 new cases this the past two weeks and that o...

Hey, mr. mayor, you're an employer. you can't lean on the private sector if you're not doing it yourself. the only reason not to do it is fear of unions and fear of the unvaccinated being a potent political force. but it's time to go to that step. what came in, catherine? what do you have in terms of social media? i like that result. i was in the yeses. by the way, when governor voted, she may have been in the yeses, too. should he mandate those receiving unemployment benefits be vaccinated? i don't know, if my humble opinion, that -- nexus is not the right word, but i don't know he'd have the...

The unvaccinated holding us back? why isn't government taking more of a lead on mandates? >> i think the professor is right in that this is the first public health crisis that has ever been made a partisan issue. it started at the outbreak of the virus and it's continued to this day. ask that's terrifying because it's really threatening people's lives. i live in a state that has a democratic governor, who has been trying from day one to implement public safety measures. the first duty of many elected official is to take care of his or her constituents, to look out for the safety and security. ...

Domestic policy and the first step of -- >> it's not in a vacuum though, right? this is going to have reverberations through our world. to be frank, a lot of arab countries are very sick of the israeli/palestinian issue. it's a thorn in their side. they want to have better relationships with israel on security, intelligence, diplomatic issues on syria, on economy and trade. they're just waiting to put this past them. but i think something like this without, you know, thoughtfully preparing the ground will see a lot of protests in the region and these are headaches that the arab states don't ne...