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Requirement for all federal employ ees. notice requirement, not mandate. they re going to try to dance around that a bit. it means more than 2 million civilian workers will have to be vaccinated or submit to regular testing and other restrictions. nbc had reaction from some federal workers headed to the office this morning. it is public health, it is not political to me, so it is for safety reasons, to make sure veterans don t get sick, we don t need that. i don t know why everybody can t get the vaccine. i think it is a long time coming, should have happened sooner. best for me, because when i did it, i felt terrible. and i don t think that this vaccine is ready to use. of course, d.c. is one place where fighting covid has sort of one perspective. federal workers living outside d.c. could be another story. whether because of new requirements or fears as cases ....
Doesn t have the necessary impact on the whole don t come strategy. absolutely. i mean, i when i talk to the white house, i told them about that, it is not the first time, they said, well, we will take it under consideration. so yes, they are purposely, purposely not showing any people being deported. secretary johnson and i remember when i talked to him, and he did show people being deported, because you have to show the visual, the visual of people being deported, other wise, you just see the people streaming into the country, and you have to have the repercussions. look, i mean, tomorrow, i have a communication with border patrol, the chief border patrol here in d.c., and i have four counties public officials, and this is hispanic democrats that are saying is, hey, we have a problem down here at the border. speaking of the border and problems, two whistle-blowers ....
Bipartisan framework was reached is a big deal for joe biden because in many ways this capitol kumbaya, when they joined with democrats to advance the agreement, represents the moment and presidency that joe biden campaigned on. you know, the word in this town and all across this country from nay sayers is that bipartisanship is dead, it doesn t work any more, that government is broken. we are here to say no, it works. it causes susan not to sleep, but we get it done. you do look great though, susan. we ve shown america tonight that we can work together, that we can put aside ideological differences and work together to find common ground. washington hasn t been able to get it done. this time we re going to get it done. it is a matter of building a ....
Making a deal. begs the question, how much power does the middle have in washington. is it their power or power that joe biden and mitch mcconnell gave to them because when it comes to spending money, it is actually easy politics. monica, i want to start with you. i keep coming back to a simple washington axiom, you can get a deal if everybody wants a deal. it is clear one person wanted this deal worse than anybody, joe biden, and because of that, we have a deal. is that a fair statement? reporter: absolutely. the president bet big on bipartisanship and was bullish the hole time, even when everybody said this thing is falling apart, no way, we remember months ago talks with the initial group of republican lawmakers that didn t pan out. so many people thought there s ....