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The accelerator. get our kids 5 and above vaccinated. it is more critical than ever. >> thank you for being with us this morning. appreciate it. >> of course. thanks so much, john. so as berman mentioned, happening today, the chicago teachers union is set to hold an emergency vote on whether to walk out of the classroom and move to virtual learning amid a spike in covid cases, even as the city's mayor insists schools are safe and will remain open. joining us now to discuss is the chicago teachers union vice president stacy davis gates. stacy, i know you were just listening to that interview ...

>> well, john, look, i know these are tough, tough times for parents and for educators. as you mentioned, i'm a dad of two kids. one of them is old enough to be vaccinated. my son is 5 and now fully vaccinated. but my daughter is under 5 and she is not eligible yet for a vaccine. my wife and i are planning to send her to school. our school has the appropriate layers of precaution. it is a public school, in washington, d.c., and we feel proud of what they're doing. in the next few weeks, schools are going to have to make some challenging decisions here. we hope that they use the mitigation meas...

Before i do any of that, i want to say there's a general issue about the shadow docket and whether or not they're rushing emergency decisions without analysis, and then there's a specific issue of the use of the shadow docket with respect to these abortion decisions, and you heard justice alito saying, well, this is just procedural, and it didn't, you know, overrule roe vs. wade. and i think that really cuts the bologna way too thin because the fact is, as a result of the supreme court's use of the shadow docket in the abortion cases, abortion is now fundamentally restricted in texas and poten...

Reprieve. a temporary restraining order stopping the right wing group texas right to life from bringing lawsuits against planned parenthood and other clinics while litigation continues. several states are planning to pass their own versions of the bill now that they know what the supreme court did. the court makes emergency decisions. as "the new york times" points out, the court spent less than three days dealing with the case. no oral arguments. the majority opinion was unsigned. one paragraph long. this court's shadow docket decision making becomes more unreason, unconsistent and impossible...

Protocol to get fda approval for this, but again, other americans wouldn't have gotten this. >> absolutely. and that's actually some of the real news in this book, is fitting together how a lot of that, those emergency decisions were made. and the interviews with the medical professionals who again were hoping that the president would come out of this, with a different attitude, toward the coronavirus. remember, this is all taking place one month before the election. and so covering it, we were doing, we were doing so in a plim context, and the -- political context and the president was respon...