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to beat the goal of 100 million shots in arms in his first 100 days in office. he now promises that milestone will be reached, by his 60th day in office. so, that's just ten days, from now. let's begin with our jeremy diamond. he joins us this morning, at the white house. that was -- there were so many important things, i think, for america to hear last night in those remarks from the president. have you learned anything, more, this morning, in terms of all these goals and dates that he put forward, really, promised last night? >> well, look. it was interesting because, in the first ...

>> right now in virginia, the law is, now that there is a new governor, students should not have to wear masks if their parents say they don't think they need to wear masks. if a parent wants to send their kids to school with no mask should the child be allowed to go to school and be in class? >> again, what we are advising school districts on is to abide by public health guidelines. and follow public health guidelines. and it's about keeping an entire community safe and those are the decisions that are being, that people should focus on. >> crystal clear for anybody watching. you guys think u...

And the whole school community safe. ainsley: my next guests are taking the mayor, the department of education and department of health over this mandate. brooklyn teacher of 20 years, trinidad smith and bronx teacher of 11 years join us now. good morning both to of you. >> good morning. ainsley: trinidad you have been teaching in brooklyn 20 years you teach children with autism or kids with special needs. how do you feel about. this it saddens me. i love my kids and i love the community that i work in and i love my school staff. >> have you thought about just retiring after 20 years? are you ...

The delta variant actually now can really cause major harm for our students. and that's a big change. and that's something where we have to be very, very careful and make sure we're doing everything in our power to keep our school community safe. and the children that we care for. the whole issue of the vaccine mandates, i didn't want to become very knowledgeable. we have over 100 years of lawsuits and court cases on vaccine mandates and it is pretty -- if a school -- if a local department of health does it properly, then they're allowed to do it. it has been upheld at the local level, the sta...

Right? listen, our job number one is to keep our kids, our educators, everybody in the school community safe. that's always been our objective and it will continue to be. i don't blame folks for wanting certainty. who could? i mean, frankly i want certainty. but ase end of july, the good news about masking, unlike an hvac system, we have time on the clock. this virus dictates the terms. we're talking about stuff today, john, that we weren't talking about literally even a week ago. so my gut tells me we're going to use all of the time that we have on the clock to assess what the masking policy ...